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Totems and Taboos (2019)

Name: Totems and Taboos
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-02-08T21:01:02+01:00

Documentary | 53 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 53 minuten

Alternative title: Totems et Tabous

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Daniel Cattier

IMDb score: 6,7 (18)

Releasedate: 7 May 2019

Totems and Taboos plot

After an impressive 5-year renovation, the Royal Museum for Central Africa of Belgium reopened its doors. We hear a voice, that of a ghost that lives here... Will the museum tell the truth about the colonization? Will it return the heritage, as Benin has asked the Musée du quai Branly ethnographic museum in Paris? Or the director of the new museum in Kinshasa? And the rich African collectors? Is there a reconciliation possible between that colonial past and today's Africa? Have other museums in Europe addressed that problem?