#21. Dahomey

- Director: Mati Diop

- Metascore: 85

- IMDb user rating: 6.8

- Run time: 1 hour 8 minutes

"Dahomey" is a documentary feature that follows the return of 26 artifacts that French troops once stole from the Kingdom of Dahomey (in the present-day republic of Benin), following a massive campaign for their reparation. Rather than taking a strong stance on reparations in general—in terms of whether or not they're enough to right the wrongs of the past—the movie elects to, as RogerEbert.com put it, "observe [the process] lovingly, encouraging dialogue on and off screen." That approach is crystallized through the imagined reminiscence of the objects, written and voiced by Haitian author Makenzy Orcel.

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