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Lightyear is a 2022 American animated science-fiction action-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.Presented as a film within a film, Lightyear is a spin-off of the Toy Story film series and centers on the character Buzz Lightyear, who appears in Toy Story as an action figure of his character in Lightyear.
The film revolves around the director's personal life as he undertakes a mission to trace back his journey that he made 27 years ago when he left Nigeria as a young man in order to try and reach Europe by road, taking the route via Benin, Mali, and Mauritania to Morocco. He meets those who are taking the same trip, just as he did over the years ...
The Woman King is set in the year 1823 in the kingdom of Dahomey, now southern Benin. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] The kingdom existed from around 1600 through 1904, and the Agojie existed for most of that time; they formed at some point between the mid-1600s and the early 1700s and likely started waging military campaigns in the 1800s.
The first film in the series, Hidden Colors: The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent, was given a limited theatrical release on April 14, 2011. [3] [4] [5] The second in the series, Hidden Colors 2: The Triumph of Melanin, was released the following year on December 6, 2012. [6]
Dahomey is a 2024 internationally co-produced [4] documentary film directed by Mati Diop.It is a dramatised account of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (in modern-day Republic of Benin), which were held in a museum in France.
The creatures from the Dungeon Dimensions which invade reality at the end of The Light Fantastic, and Rincewind's fight in the Dungeon Dimensions themselves, are completely omitted, and Trymon is simply driven mad by reading the Octavo spells at the end of the film version. Galder Weatherwax is also killed by Trymon in the film version, whereas ...
The Edo people, also referred to as the Benin people, [3] are an Edoid-speaking ethnic group. [4] They are prominently native to seven southern local government areas of Edo State , Nigeria . They are speakers of the Edo language and are the descendants of the founders of the Benin Kingdom , Ogiso Igodo. [ 5 ]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 45% of 242 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Empire of Light contains some fine performances and a few flashes of brilliance, but this tribute to the magic of cinema is disappointingly mundane."