Mati Diop is a French film director and actress. She won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film debut, the supernatural romantic drama Atlantics, and the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival for her second feature film, the documentary Dahomey.
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I started to watch the ocean. I was not looking at it like I used to; it became like a grave.
On travelling to Senegal in 2008 to make a film in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible
As a mixed [-race] girl, there’s always a visible and invisible side of you; there’s a place you inhabit and place you desert,” she says.
On her mixed race ancestry in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” in The
My family history is made of migration; it’s something that’s part of my own complexity.
On her family background that includes an immigrant parent in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and
Filmography 25
Atlantics
Both Sides of the Blade
Simon Killer
35 Shots of Rum
Dahomey
Atlantiques
In My Room
Hermia & Helena
Queens of Drama
Fort Buchanan
Snow Canon
A Thousand Suns
A History of Mutual Respect
L for Leisure
Liberian Boy
Another World
Naked Blue
Sleepwalkers
30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
Fort Buchanan: Hiver
Limbo Visions 1
Olympus
Île artificielle - Expédition45 credits on file
Television 1
Clique TalkAwards 2
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Connected to Mati 6
About this person
Mati Diop is a French film director and actress. She won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film debut, the supernatural romantic drama Atlantics, and the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival for her second feature film, the documentary Dahomey. As an actress, she is known for the drama film 35 Shots of Rum (2008).
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