Mati Diop

Born: 1982-06-22, 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.

Filmography

• Bye Bye (2011)
• Mille soleils (2013)
• Avec amour et acharnement (2022)
• Liberian Boy (2015)
• Naked Blue (2022)
• Dahomey (2024)
• Simon Killer (2012)
• Olympe (2017)
• Atlantique (2019)
• 35 Rhums (2009)
• Les reines du drame (2024)
• Atlantiques (2009)
• A History of Mutual Respect (2010)
• Hermia & Helena (2016)
• Limbo Visions 1 (2015)
• Île artificielle—Expédition (2006)
• L for Leisure (2015)
• Snow Canon (2011)
• 30ème anniversaire du FIDMarseille (2019)
• Fort Buchanan: Hiver (2012)
• Fort Buchanan (2014)