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Mubi has bought “Dahomey,” a highlight of this year’s Berlinale competition and directed by Cannes prizewinner Mati Diop (“Atlantics”), for North America, Latin America, U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey and India. The feature film is represented in international markets by Films du Losange, which negotiated the deal with Mubi. “Dahomey” marks the sophomore outing of …
Mubi has bought 'Dahomey,' a highlight of this year's Berlinale directed by Cannes prizewinner Mati Diop ('Atlantics') for North America, U.K. and more.
“The first shape I had in mind for this film was fiction,” filmmaker Mati Diop told a Berlin Film Festival presser this morning when quizzed on the structure of her inventive documentary Dahomey. The doc — which screens in the Berlinale competition this afternoon — borrows its name from the former West African kingdom of …