Mati Diop

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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Fort Buchanan (2014)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Benjamin Crotty
CAST:  Andy Gillet  •  Iliana Zabeth  •  David Baïot  •  Mati Diop

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Benjamin Crotty
CAST:  Andy Gillet  •  Iliana Zabeth  •  David Baïot  •  Mati Diop

A Thousand Suns (2013)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Magaye Niang  •  Wasis Diop  •  Myriam Niang

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Magaye Niang  •  Wasis Diop  •  Myriam Niang

Snow Canon (2011)

An American babysitter comes to look after a young French teenager in her parents' chalet in the French Alps. Teenage sexual awakening fantasy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Nilaya Bal  •  Nour Mobarak  •  Alban Guyon  •  Chan Coïc

An American babysitter comes to look after a young French teenager in her parents' chalet in the French Alps. Teenage sexual awakening fantasy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Nilaya Bal  •  Nour Mobarak  •  Alban Guyon  •  Chan Coïc

Big in Vietnam (2012)

Film following a Vietnamese director's wanderings through Marseille after her lead actor goes missing. Karaoke, beach sunrises and diaspora reminiscences.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Henriette Nhung  •  Ghe Büi  •  Mike N'Guyen

Film following a Vietnamese director's wanderings through Marseille after her lead actor goes missing. Karaoke, beach sunrises and diaspora reminiscences.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Henriette Nhung  •  Ghe Büi  •  Mike N'Guyen

Simon Killer (2012)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antonio Campos
CAST:  Brady Corbet  •  Mati Diop  •  Michaël Abiteboul  •  Constance Rousseau

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antonio Campos
CAST:  Brady Corbet  •  Mati Diop  •  Michaël Abiteboul  •  Constance Rousseau

Atlantiques (2009)

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?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Jenny Alpha  •  Cheikh M'Baye  •  Ouli Seck  •  Serigne Seck

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?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Jenny Alpha  •  Cheikh M'Baye  •  Ouli Seck  •  Serigne Seck

35 Shots of Rum (2009)

A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Claire Denis
CAST:  Mati Diop  •  Nicole Dogué  •  Grégoire Colin  •  Alex Descas

A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Claire Denis
CAST:  Mati Diop  •  Nicole Dogué  •  Grégoire Colin  •  Alex Descas

L for Leisure (2014)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lev Kalman  •  Whitney Horn
CAST:  Marianna McClellan  •  Gabriel Abrantes  •  Bro Estes  •  Melissa Barrera

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lev Kalman  •  Whitney Horn
CAST:  Marianna McClellan  •  Gabriel Abrantes  •  Bro Estes  •  Melissa Barrera

Another World (2011)

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...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gabriel Aghion
CAST:  Dominique Blanc  •  Claude Brasseur  •  Mati Diop  •  Nicolas Givran

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...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gabriel Aghion
CAST:  Dominique Blanc  •  Claude Brasseur  •  Mati Diop  •  Nicolas Givran

Hermia & Helena (2016)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Agustina Muñoz  •  María Villar  •  Pablo Sigal  •  Kyle Molzan

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matías Piñeiro
CAST:  Agustina Muñoz  •  María Villar  •  Pablo Sigal  •  Kyle Molzan

Liberian Boy (2015)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop  •  Manon Lutanie
CAST:  Jules Langlade

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop  •  Manon Lutanie
CAST:  Jules Langlade

Félicité Remix #1: Billard Luxury Palace (2017)

First of a triptych of shorts using, reusing, misusing unused and behind-the-scenes footage from Félicité.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
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First of a triptych of shorts using, reusing, misusing unused and behind-the-scenes footage from Félicité.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
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Atlantics (2019)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Mame Bineta Sane  •  Ibrahima Traore  •  Amadou Mbow  •  Nicole Sougou

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Mame Bineta Sane  •  Ibrahima Traore  •  Amadou Mbow  •  Nicole Sougou

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille (2019)

For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lav Diaz  •  Mati Diop  •  Eduardo Williams  •  Marie Voignier  •  Gastón Solnicki  •  Valérie Massadian  •  Dominique Cabrera  •  Ghassan Salhab  •  Nobuhiro Suwa  •  Mariano Llinás  •  Sepideh Farsi  •  Paula Gaitán  •  Clément Cogitore  •  Véronique Aubouy  •  Manon de Boer  •  Gaël Lépingle  •  Alexandre Koberidze  •  Evangelia Kranioti  •  Clarisse Hahn  •  Pierre Creton  •  Helena Wittmann  •  Elise Florenty  •  Dora García  •  Pascale Bodet  •  Antonia Rossi  •  Claude Schmitz  •  Yuliya Shatun  •  Elvin Adigozel  •  Chris Guide  •  Fabrice Lauterjung  •  Noëlle Pujol
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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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lav Diaz  •  Mati Diop  •  Eduardo Williams  •  Marie Voignier  •  Gastón Solnicki  •  Valérie Massadian  •  Dominique Cabrera  •  Ghassan Salhab  •  Nobuhiro Suwa  •  Mariano Llinás  •  Sepideh Farsi  •  Paula Gaitán  •  Clément Cogitore  •  Véronique Aubouy  •  Manon de Boer  •  Gaël Lépingle  •  Alexandre Koberidze  •  Evangelia Kranioti  •  Clarisse Hahn  •  Pierre Creton  •  Helena Wittmann  •  Elise Florenty  •  Dora García  •  Pascale Bodet  •  Antonia Rossi  •  Claude Schmitz  •  Yuliya Shatun  •  Elvin Adigozel  •  Chris Guide  •  Fabrice Lauterjung  •  Noëlle Pujol
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Île artificielle - Expédition (2006)

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)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
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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)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST: 

Sleepwalkers (2011)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thierry de Peretti
CAST:  Pascal Tagnati  •  Mustapha Makaoui  •  Mati Diop  •  Jean-Emmanuel Pagni

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thierry de Peretti
CAST:  Pascal Tagnati  •  Mustapha Makaoui  •  Mati Diop  •  Jean-Emmanuel Pagni

Limbo Visions 1 (2015)

Four filmmakers share a montage of their original ghost images and rushes on a mix of I've seen the future.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop  •  Lucile Hadzihalilovic  •  Caroline Poggi  •  Jonathan Vinel
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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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop  •  Lucile Hadzihalilovic  •  Caroline Poggi  •  Jonathan Vinel
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In My Room (2020)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Mati Diop

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mati Diop
CAST:  Mati Diop

Both Sides of the Blade (2022)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Claire Denis
CAST:  Juliette Binoche  •  Vincent Lindon  •  Hana Magimel  •  Grégoire Colin

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Claire Denis
CAST:  Juliette Binoche  •  Vincent Lindon  •  Hana Magimel  •  Grégoire Colin

Fort Buchanan: Hiver (2012)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Benjamin Crotty
CAST:  Mati Diop  •  Andy Gillet  •  Pauline Jacquard  •  Nancy Lane Kaplan

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Benjamin Crotty
CAST:  Mati Diop  •  Andy Gillet  •  Pauline Jacquard  •  Nancy Lane Kaplan
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