- Avant-premiere
Le Palace is pleased to invite you to a AVANT-PREMIÈRE screening of the 2024 Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear: DAHOMEY.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Lyse Ishimwe (Recognition Brussels) and Stephanie Collingwood Williams (she/they) of Collectif Faire Part.
Stephanie Collingwood Williams (she/they) is an ex-social worker, anthropologist, trainer, consultant and person of trust. She is part of collectif faire part with which she has curated two editions of sokl. She grew up in Ghana, moved to Belgium at 17 and has been active in multiple anti-racist and climate justice movements and actions.
DAHOMEY
Mati Diop
FR/BJ/CN, 67′, 2024, VO ST FR/NL
Synopsis: November 2021, twenty-six royal treasures from Dahomey are about to leave Paris for repatriation to their homeland, now Benin. Along with several thousand others, these works were looted during the invasion of French colonial troops in 1892. But how are we to live with the return of these ancestors in a country that has had to build itself and come to terms with their absence? As the soul of the works is set free, debate rages among students at the University of Abomey Calavi.
In collaboration with Different Class & Recognition
