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.

Filmography

• 2024Dahomey — Producer, Writer, Casting, Director
• 2024Queens of Drama — Mimi's Mother
• 2022Both Sides of the Blade — Gabrielle
• 2022Naked Blue — Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2020In My Room — Herself, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 201930th anniversaire of FIDMarseille — Director
• 2019Atlantics — Director, Screenplay, Casting
• 2017Olympus — Director
• 2016Hermia & Helena — Danièle
• 2015L for Leisure — Stacey
• 2015Liberian Boy — Director, Director of Photography
• 2015Limbo Visions 1 — Director
• 2014Fort Buchanan — Justine
• 2013A Thousand Suns — Director, Director of Photography
• 2012Big in Vietnam — Director, Writer, Cinematography
• 2012Fort Buchanan: Hiver
• 2012Simon Killer — Noura, Story
• 2011Another World — Sita
• 2011Bye Bye — Jehanne
• 2011Sleepwalkers
• 2011Snow Canon — Director, Writer
• 2010A History of Mutual Respect
• 2010Yoshido (The Other Life) — Amy
• 200935 Shots of Rum — Joséphine
• 2009Atlantiques — Director, Sound, Director of Photography, Writer
• 2006Île artificielle—Expédition — Director

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Clique Talk — Self