
Birthday:
06-22-1982
(42 years)
Birthplace:
Paris, France
Biography
Mati Diop (born June 22, 1982) is a French-Senegalese actress and film director. She directed the 2019 film Atlantics, for which she became the first black female director to be in contention for the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or. At Cannes, Atlantics won the Grand Prix.
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35 Shots of Rum
Act like Joséphine
event2009 star_border 6.8
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A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
Simon Killer
Act like Noura
event2012 star_border 5.8
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A recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.
Another World
Act like Sita
event2011 star_border 3.2
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1915. Louis, aged 17, arrives on Reunion Island to find his father, Count Kerdiguen. He has built himself a new family with Salima, his native partner, and their daughter Sita. Between the white and native communities, tensions are increasingly mounting...
Fort Buchanan
Act like Justine
event2014 star_border 5.2
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Four seasons to tell the fluctuating moods and mores of a small community that shares its daily chores and life experiences in the military base of Fort Buchanan. In this imagined (perhaps dreamed?) location, peculiar habits respond to the needs of a peculiar environment. Roger, a fragile gay man, and his female companions, trying to cope with the absence of their husbands, go through their own brand of challenges for survival, with their own form of outdoor camaraderie, thought-occupying chat and DIY activities. Roger has a tough daughter who runs him ragged, but he has buddies willing to help: Justine, Denise, Pamela and Claudia-Joy.
L for Leisure
Act like Stacey
event2015 star_border 5.7
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A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite activity: talking endlessly. During a series of vacation days filled with sun-drenched naps, squabbling, waterskiing competitions and love-making, the amateur actors discuss their concerns in dry dialogues. For instance, semi-intellectual reflections on the end of time and how Michael Jordan plays basketball.
Hermia & Helena
Act like Danièle
event2016 star_border 5.5
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Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.
Sleepwalkers
event2011
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Corsica, summer 2009. Pascal, a young medic indulges in his boredom and melancholy between the hospital corridors and streets of the city. Mustapha an illegal worker at a hotel in the center of the island is forced to go underground. Between the two, a choir of young people changes the world.
In My Room
Act like Herself
event2020 star_border 6
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Made during confinement, "In My Room" plunges us into the poignant story of a woman at the twilight of her life, through recordings of the director's deceased grandmother. Living rooms become stages where life is performed. Windows become portals to the lives of others.
Both Sides of the Blade
Act like Gabrielle
event2022 star_border 5.5
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Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back when he played rugby. Jean and Sara love each other. One day, Sara sees François in the street. He does not notice her, but she is overtaken by the sensation that her life could suddenly change. François gets back in touch with Jean. For the first time in years. He suggests they start working together again. From here on, things spiral out of control.
Fort Buchanan: Hiver
event2012
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When Roger's husband deploys to Djibouti, he's left alone at Fort Buchanan with his temperamental daughter Roxy. Her violent outbursts drive him to seek comfort in friends and self-confidence through boxing lessons with a personal trainer.
Queens of Drama
Act like Mimi's Mother
event2024 star_border 8.5
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It's 2055 and Steevyshady, an obsessive Mimi Madamour stan, tells us of their idol’s mad destiny from the very peak of her career in 2005, all the way down to the pits of hell, a downfall brought about by her love story with punk icon Billie Kohler. Over the course of half a century we follow these drama queens as they top the charts and set sail on the course of mad queer love.
Atlantiques
Director (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 5.9
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Short lo-fi film set in Senegal. Mostly focussing on a group of Senegalese youths, discussing their hopes and fears concerning the crossing of the atlantic to get to Europe. Will life be easier there or not?
Big in Vietnam
Director (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5
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Film following a Vietnamese director's wanderings through Marseille after her lead actor goes missing. Karaoke, beach sunrises and diaspora reminiscences.
Snow Canon
Director (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 5
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February in the French Alps. Vanina likes to hear the chalet’s parquet floor squeaking beneath her bare feet. Vanina likes to coat herself in sunscreen cream in front of the fireplace. Vanina likes the tawny fur of her rabbit. But above all, what Vanina likes is her American babysitter, Mary Jane…
A Thousand Suns
Director (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 6.7
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In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, "A Thousand Suns" investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents "Touki Bouki." What has happened since? Magaye Niang, the hero of the movie, has never left Dakar. And today, the old cowboy wonders where Anta is, the love of his youth. Stories about family, exile and cinema meet between the sphere of intimacy and that of myth.
Dahomey
Producer (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 6.7
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Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.
Olympus
Director (1 ep.)
event2017
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Full moon above the city of Paris. A young man crosses the city neighborhoods on his bike, when elsewhere a group of distinguished young people that seem to come from another planet, stroll, smoke and chat.
Atlantics
Director (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.8
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Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.
Liberian Boy
Director (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 4.4
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Jules had been hard at work rehearsing the steps to "Billie Jean" for the end-of-the-year show. That same year, he jumped onstage in the middle of a post-rock concert, took off his shirt, leapt into the crowd. That’s when we started to film him. Then we offered to spend a day in a studio and film him dancing.
Île artificielle - Expédition
Director (1 ep.)
event2006
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Christopher Columbus discovered America while looking for India. Columbus' journeys are subjective and undefined. Illusions take over objective observation. When one leaves, it is always his/ her own dreams that take off first. The edge of the world is definitely more narrow than the idea of it.
Tokyo Trip
Director (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 5
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For this three-and-a-half minute short, Diop conjures up some of the same romance as a pastel-haired Sane navigates life in Tokyo dressed head-to-toe in Chanel`s unmistakable tweeds. "I imagined a sort of travel journal of Mama`s trip to Tokyo," says Diop. "Somewhere between a documentary and a hallucinated trip, her silhouette in the streets, the way she sees the city and the way the urbanites there see her."
Félicité Remix #1: Billard Luxury Palace
Director (1 ep.)
event2017
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First of a triptych of shorts using, reusing, misusing unused and behind-the-scenes footage from Félicité.
30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
Director (1 ep.)
event2019
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For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.
Limbo Visions 1
Director (1 ep.)
event2015
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Four filmmakers share a montage of their original ghost images and rushes on a mix of I've seen the future.
Naked Blue
Director (1 ep.)
event2022
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Naked Blue was developed through a collaboration with Oumy Bruni Garrel, the film’s protagonist, and Devonté Hynes, who composed its score (performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra). From this combined star power emerges a work of startling intimacy, which follows then-13-year-old Oumy’s choreographed movements through a studio set painted an underwater blue, as she dances in front of mirrors and salutes an imaginary audience. Under the blazing lights and swelling music, her performance recalls a screen test or dance film—but the resulting work breaks free from the proscenium frame typical of those genres. — Museum of Modern Art
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