Mati Diop, born in 1982, lives and works in Paris.

Her diverse film work since the 2000s has established the director as a representative of a new wave of African and Afro-diasporic culture. Her feature film "Atlantics" won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2019. She sees cinema as a tool of reappropriation to restore lost images, question degrading colonial representations and invent new heroes and heroines.

She directed her first short "Last Night" in 2004. She joined the Pavillon artistic laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in 2006 and the contemporary arts studio in Le Fresnoy in 2007. Leading actress in Claire Denis' new film "Trente-cinq rhums" (2009), she collaborates with her videos and sounds in theatre and stage directing in Paris, Oslo and Moscow. She directed her first documentary film 1000 Suns in 2008, homage to the filmmaker Djibril DIOP Mambéty, her uncle.
Wasis DIOP's daughter.


FILMOGRAPHY / FILMOGRAPHIE
2010 - Atlantiques
2011 - Snow Canon
2012 - Big in Vietnam
2013 - Mille Soleils
2019 - Atlantique (Atlantics)
2020 - In My Room
2024 - Dahomey
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2024