The International Women's Film Festival features 18 films, all made by women. The auditorium of the only cinema in the capital of Benin, Cotonou, is filled to capacity. Those who arrive late have to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, “Heist of Benin,” more than a decade after their Academy ...

As the drumming rumbles on, Hollywood actor Djimon Hounsou walks shirtless with a voodoo procession making its way through the dusty streets of Heve in his native Benin. "I am like an African who has ...

Mati Diop’s documentary is told partly in the ‘voice’ of one of the looted treasures, in a realist jeu d’esprit about the legacy of plunder Franco-Senegalese actor and film-maker Mati Diop made ...

"Dahomey", French-Senegalese director Mati Diop's film about how returning 26 looted treasures to Benin sparked a reckoning with colonialism's legacy, won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear prize ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Disorientation awaits in the brilliant, bracing documentary Dahomey. In a world of endless running times, the film says what ...

Barely a year after its establishment, the Benin Film Academy (BFA) will today, be graduating its first set of students in Benin City, the Edo State capital. Founder of the academy, award-winning ...

Nigerian film brings 1897 Colonial-Era story to American audience as ‘Osamede’ will screen at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival, bringing the story of the colonial Benin Kingdom to one of North ...

BERLIN: Dahomey, French-Senegalese director Mati Diop’s film about how returning 26 treasures to Benin, art looted by Western powers in the 19th century, sparked a reckoning with colonialism’s legacy, ...

David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, "Heist of Benin," more than a decade after their Academy Award-winning film "Selma." Oyelowo will star in the film, which is set in ...