
Mati Diop
Directing
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.
🎬 Movies (26)

Queens of Drama
2024
Mimi's Mother

Dahomey
2024
Director

Both Sides of the Blade
2022
Gabrielle

Naked Blue
2022
Director

In My Room
2020
Director

Atlantics
2019
Director

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
2019
Director

Olympus
2017
Director

Hermia & Helena
2016
Danièle

L for Leisure
2015
Stacey

Liberian Boy
2015
Director

Limbo Visions 1
2015
Director

Fort Buchanan
2014
Justine

A Thousand Suns
2013
Director

Simon Killer
2012
Noura

Fort Buchanan: Hiver
2012
Big in Vietnam
2012
Director

Another World
2011
Sita

Sleepwalkers
2011

Bye Bye
2011
Jehanne

Snow Canon
2011
Director

A History of Mutual Respect
2010
Yoshido (The Other Life)
2010
Amy

35 Shots of Rum
2009
Joséphine

Atlantiques
2009
Director

Île artificielle—Expédition
2006
Director
