Alice Diop is a Senegalese-French writer and director from the suburbs of Paris. In 2022 she released her first narrative feature film, Saint Omer, based on the true story of a Senegalese woman who stood trial for infanticide in France. Diop has directed several acclaimed documentaries including We, Towards Tenderness, and The Death of Danton.
Alice Diop
Aulnay-sous-Bois, France
Films
Saint Omer
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(2022)
Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea. But things don't go as expected.
We
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(2021)
Encounters on a rail line crossing north to south through Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts, and the filmmaker herself.
Towards Tenderness
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(2016)
Four young men from the Paris suburbs talk about their masculinity. Their interior monologues, however, reveal other desires.
Danton's Death
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(2011)
Steve, a 25-year-old Black man from the Paris suburbs, seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France’s most prestigious drama schools. But soon he discovers that the theater world is only interested in having him inhabit “Black” roles.
