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Mati Diop (born 22 June 1982) 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.
Mati Diop was born on 22 June 1982 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Atlantics (2019), Dahomey (2024) and A Thousand Suns (2013).
Nov 14, 2019 · Niece to celebrated Senegalese auteur Djibril Diop Mambéty ("Hyenas," "Touki Bouki"), Mati Diop creates an eerie genre romance between soon-to-be-married Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) and construction worker Souleiman (Ibrahima Traoré) within a coming-of-age drama for an endlessly surprising narrative compound.
Nov 23, 2019 · Mati Diop is the first black woman to compete at the Cannes Film Festival — where her first feature won the Grand Prix. The movie about women left behind by refugees is coming...
Atlantics (French: Atlantique) is a 2019 internationally co-produced supernatural romantic drama film directed by Mati Diop, in her feature directorial debut. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Nov 8, 2019 · Mati Diop‘s “Atlantics” upends that tradition. The Cannes-winning feature debut harnesses fantasy to tell a haunting story about the women who are often left behind.
May 20, 2019 · The biracial French director Mati Diop, 36, made the movie in Dakar, Senegal, where her uncle, Djibril Diop Mambéty, set his landmark postcolonial film, “ Touki Bouki ” (1973), about two young...
May 17, 2019 · CANNES, France (AP) — Mati Diop was initially disappointed when she, by reading a news article, discovered that she was the first black female filmmaker in the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious competition in its 72-year history.
Nov 14, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Mati Diop has always lived in Paris but as a French-Senegalese woman whose family is from Dakar, she’s long been acutely conscious of another, unlived existence for herself in Africa. And it’s there that her life as a filmmaker has largely resided.
Nov 20, 2019 · Mati Diop’s fiction feature debut “Atlantics” was a groundbreaking work even before it won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
