Mati Diop

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1982 age 0

   Born

2. 2009 age 27

   CreditAtlantiquesdirector

3. 2019 age 37

   CreditAtlantiquedirector

   CreditAtlantiquescreenwriter

4. 2022 age 40

   CreditBoth Sides of the Blade

5. 2024 age 42

   CreditDahomeydirector

   CreditDahomeyscreenwriter

• JBJuliette Binoche1 title
• ÉGÉric Gautier1 title
• BOBulle Ogier1 title
• CMClaire Mathon1 title
• ODOlivier Delbosc1 title
• VLVincent Lindon1 title
• GCGrégoire Colin1 title
• ODOlivier Demangel1 title
• FQFatima Al Qadiri1 title
• ITIbrahima Traore1 title

• Parents

  • WDWasis Diop

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Elena TernovajaCC BY-SA 3.0
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  Photo:Elena TernovajaCC BY-SA 3.0

• I started to watch the ocean. I was not looking at it like I used to; it became like a grave.

  Mati Diop, CC BY-SA 4.0

• As a mixed [-race] girl, there’s always a visible and invisible side of you; there’s a place you inhabit and place you desert,” she says. “How does the place that you don’t live in influence you?

  Mati Diop, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My family history is made of migration; it’s something that’s part of my own complexity.

  Mati Diop, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When I started writing the script, I realized that I hadn’t really seen any film with a black couple that was worthy of Romeo and Juliet…And through Ada and Souleiman I wanted to relate a similar kind of tragic love, in the age of rampant capitalism.

  Mati Diop, CC BY-SA 4.0