
African filmmaker Mati Diop shines at Cannes Film Festival
Mati Diop, French-Senegalese actress and director, has become the first black female director to win an award in Cannes Film Festival’s 72-year history.
News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that Diop took home the Grand Prix , equivalent of a silver prize, for her film ‘Atlantics’, a Senegalese drama about sexual politics among young migrants.
The Grand Prix award, bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films, is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d’Or.
The 36-year-old however said she was a “little sad” to make history as the …