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Mati Diop

Mati DIOP (1982, France) lives and works in Paris and is both filmmaker and actor. She directed her first four short films while attending Le Fresnoy and Le Pavillon (Palais de Tokyo). She is the niece of the great Senegalese film director Djibril Diop Mambéty, and made Mille soleils (2013) as a homage to his Touki bouki. In Rotterdam, Diop has won a Tiger Award for Short Films twice: in 2010 for Atlantiques and in 2012 for Big in Vietnam. In 2014, the filmmaker was in Rotterdam as a jury member for the short films competition. Her latest feature, Atlantique (2019), won the Grand Prix at the 2019 edition of the Cannes Festival. She is the first black female director to participate in the Cannes Competition.

Filmography

(selection) Last Night (2004, short), Atlantiques/Atlantics (2009, short), Big in Vietnam (2011, short), Snow Canon (2012, short), Mille soleils/A Thousand Suns (2013, short), Liberian Boy (2015, short, co-dir), Atlantique/Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story (2019)

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Mati Diop at IFFR

  • Snow Canon

    Teenage girl and her babysitter engage in intriguing game of rejection and seduction. Great camera work and ditto acting in film by Tiger Award winner

    • Mati Diop: Shorts

  • Atlantiques

    The story of a young stowaway from Dakar who gives up his youth for a new life on the other side of the endless water.

    • Mati Diop: Shorts

  • 35 Rhums

    Father and daughter realise that they have to leave their house. Claire Denis shows a loving relationship in transition.

    • Spectrum

  • Simon Killer

    Many Americans preceded him to Paris, but lost soul Simon primarily experiences the dark and harsh side of the city. His own dark side becomes visible

    • Bright Future

  • Fort Buchanan

    Homosexuality, a parent-foster child relationship, friendships and empowerment are the ingredients for a seductively camp drama in the wintery woods.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Mille soleils

    Part of IFFR White Nights on Wednesday 13 July at 22:00In spite of lasting fame due to his main role in the road movie Touki Bouki, the African actor

    • Mid-length
    • Signals: Regained

  • L for Leisure

    Comedy about students on holiday in the early 1990s. First feature by Kalman and Horn after IFFR hit Blondes in the Jungle (2010). Friends from Rotter

    • Bright Future

  • Atlantique

    In Dakar, two young lovers have a star-crossed relationship. Fate may bring them together in this beautiful, darkly romantic tale.

    • Limelight

  • Hermia & Helena

    Contemporary, free adaptation of A Midsummer Night’sDream in New York by Argentinian talent and Shakespeare fanatic Piñeiro is all charmi

    • Voices

  • Fort Buchanan

    Paying tribute to popular American culture and TV series, Benjamin Crotty revisits by way of transposition and transformation: situations and dialogue

    • Bright Future