RESTITUER L'ART AFRICAIN, LES FANTOMES DE LA COLONISATION

November 2017. The French president Emmanuel Macron pledges to return the artworks stolen from African countries during the colonial period. Amongst the 90,000 works from sub-Saharan Africa as belonging to the French collections, the sculpture representing the god Gu, claimed by Benin, crystallises all that's at stake with these restitutions.

Directed by: Laurent Védrine (France, 2020)
Selections: 2021 Luchon Festival, Vues d'Afrique Montreal, FIFDH Geneva.