Alice Diop

In 2021, Alice Diop completed her new feature documentary, Nous, which was nominated at several festivals and awarded the Golden Bear for Best Documentary and for Best Film in the “Encounters” section at the 2021 Berlinale. She also made Saint Omer, her first feature film based on the criminal story of Fabienne Kabou, written with Amrita David and novelist Marie Ndiaye. 

In parallel, Alice Diop is working on a project for an ideal film library of the world's suburbs as part of her artistic residency at Ateliers Médicis in Clichy-Montfermeil, accompanied by a programming team including members of partner organisations (Ateliers Médicis and the Centre Pompidou, Cinéma 93, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Périphérie, the French Embassy in the United States (Albertine Cinémathèque)). Her work is eminently political and follows a common thread, of which the starting point may have been Aubervilliers (1946), a feature film by Eli Lotard and Jacques Prévert, or L’amour existe (1960), by Maurice Pialat. 

Her current project questions and reveals the constellation that surrounds her. How are the spaces and faces of the French suburbs represented in cinema? Which are the greatest films in the history of French cinema that represent the suburbs or were made by filmmakers from the suburbs? How and why have the suburbs been made invisible and forgotten?   

Full programme coming soon.