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14 Facts About Mati Diop

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Mati Diop was born on 22 June 1982 and is a French film director and actress.

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Mati Diop won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film debut, the supernatural romantic drama Atlantics, and the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival for her second feature film, the documentary Dahomey.

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Mati Diop's father, Wasis Diop, is a Senegalese musician, while her mother, Christine Brossard, is an art buyer and photographer.

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Mati Diop is the niece of filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety.

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Mati Diop was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2014 to 2015.

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Mati Diop later changed the title of this film to what is known as her directorial feature film debut, Atlantics.

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Mati Diop made her directorial debut in 2004 with her short film Last Night.

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Mati Diop was one of only four women accepted into the festival in the given year.

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Mati Diop directed a documentary, In My Room, as part of Miu Miu's Women's Tales series, which blended audio recordings of her maternal grandmother, Maji, with footage Mati Diop shot of herself in her Parisian apartment during the time she was quarantined during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mati Diop's work has been featured at the Venice Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival in 2012, and the Valdivia International Film Festival, as well as the Museum of the Moving Image in 2013.

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Mati Diop made her acting debut in Claire Denis' film 35 Shots of Rum, playing the lead role of a young woman in a close-knit relationship with her father, whom she has trouble leaving as she gets ready for marriage.

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Mati Diop received a nomination for the Lumieres Award for most promising actress for her role in the film.

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Mati Diop uses aspects of magical realism in her films, examples including Atlantics, Snow Cannon, and Big in Vietnam.

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Mati Diop can be quoted talking about her storytelling processes, notably on how she uses sets and props to convey her plots as opposed to just characters and dialogue.