Mati Diop

Mati Diop (b. 1982) is a Franco-Senegalese director. Her first feature film, Atlantique (2019), won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival (for which she also served as jury member in 2021). Atlantique was short-listed among the ten best international films at the Oscars. Her medium-length and short films In My Room (2020), Liberian Boy (2015), Mille Soleils (2013), Big in Vietnam (2012), Snow Canon (2011), and Atlantiques (2009) have been selected and awarded at numerous international festivals (including the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Viennale, IndieLisboa, and FIDMarseille) as well as at MoMA. In 2016, Diop received the Martin E. Segal Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center (EU). Mati Diop is also an actress. Between 2008 and 2016, she appeared in several films, including 35 Shots of Rum by Claire Denis (2008).