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
35 Rhums
Father and daughter realise that they have to leave their house. Claire Denis shows a loving relationship in transition.
100'
France
IFFR 2009
Atlantiques
15'
France
IFFR 2010
Big in Vietnam
29'
France
IFFR 2012
Snow Canon
33'
France
IFFR 2012
Fort Buchanan
13'
France
IFFR 2013
Simon Killer
105'
USA
IFFR 2013
L for Leisure
69'
USA
IFFR 2014
Mille soleils
45'
France
IFFR 2014
Fort Buchanan
65'
France
IFFR 2015
Hermia & Helena
87'
Argentina
IFFR 2017
Atlantique
In Dakar, two young lovers have a star-crossed relationship. Fate may bring them together in this beautiful, darkly romantic tale.
104'
France
IFFR 2020