Nairobi, March 2 -- Dahomey, by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop won the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear prize for best film.

The documentary follows the journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.

It is set in November 2021, when 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892.

"To rebuild we must first restore, and to restitute we must do justice," Diop said in her acceptance speech. "We are among tho...