Dahomey (Directed by Mati Diop)
Daughters (Directed by Natalie Rae & Angela Patton)
No Other Land (Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor)
Sugarcane (Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie)
Will & Harper (Directed by Josh Greenbaum)
DAHOMEY (DIRECTED BY MATI DIOP)
This is the first win and nomination for Mati Diop.
2024 yet another impressive year for documentary film making featured many worthy titles I might've nominated in this top five but in the end these five titles are just the ones both story and structure wise I will take from this year when I think of documentary film making.
Mati Diop made such an impression on me five years ago with her feature film directorial debut Atlantics and I had been waiting desperately to witness what she would do next and since hearing of her Berlin winning documentary earlier this year I greatly anticipated it. When finally seeing the film I was majorly impressed by Diop's narrative style returning through the lens of a documentary too.
The film isn't your traditional or expected film without talking heads, interview scenes or just what you'd regularly expect from a documentary. Diop challenges your expectations and does it so impressively with great photography, use of narration to add mystery to the subjects at the centre and just making something so staggering I expect many to discuss the films greatness for decades to come.
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