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Mati Diop

Mati Diop

Mati Diop

1982-06-22

Paris, France

Age: 43

DIRECTING

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.

Best known for:

Atlantics

Both Sides of the Blade

Simon Killer

35 Shots of Rum

Dahomey

Atlantiques

In My Room

Hermia & Helena

Fort Buchanan

Queens of Drama

Snow Canon

A History of Mutual Respect

A Thousand Suns

Big in Vietnam

L for Leisure

Liberian Boy

Another World

Naked Blue

Tokyo Trip

Île artificielle—Expédition

Yoshido (The Other Life)

Sleepwalkers

Fort Buchanan: Hiver

Limbo Visions 1

Clique Talk

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Filmography:

Île artificielle—Expédition (2006)
WORK AS:
Director
35 Shots of Rum (2009)
5.5
APPEREAD AS:
Joséphine
Atlantiques (2009)
WORK AS:
Director, Sound, Director of Photography
Snow Canon (2011)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Another World (2011)
APPEREAD AS:
Sita
Simon Killer (2012)
4.4
APPEREAD AS:
Noura
WORK AS:
Story
A Thousand Suns (2013)
WORK AS:
Director, Director of Photography
Fort Buchanan (2014)
APPEREAD AS:
Justine

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L for Leisure (2015)
APPEREAD AS:
Stacey
Liberian Boy (2015)
WORK AS:
Director, Director of Photography
Limbo Visions 1 (2015)
WORK AS:
Director
Hermia & Helena (2016)
APPEREAD AS:
Danièle
Olympus (2017)
WORK AS:
Director
Atlantics (2019)
5.4
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille (2019)
WORK AS:
Director
Both Sides of the Blade (2022)
3.9
APPEREAD AS:
Gabrielle

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Naked Blue (2022)
WORK AS:
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Tokyo Trip (2023)
WORK AS:
Director
Queens of Drama (2024)
APPEREAD AS:
Mimi's Mother
Dahomey (2024)
5.3
WORK AS:
Producer, Writer, Casting, Director

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