Three Films by Alice Diop
Leaving January 1
A Senegalese French child of the Paris suburbs that figure so prominently in her work, filmmaker Alice Diop has, in her documentaries—included in this series—and 2022 narrative fiction debut Saint Omer, striven to “oppose the dominant image of France that denies a part of the population.” An essential aspect of Diop’s creative mission is her “La Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde” (“the ideal cinematheque for the world’s suburbs”) project, founded in 2021 with the assistance of the Centre Pompidou and the Ateliers Médicis, its stated mission to “welcome, protect, and work on films that come from all the peripheries of the world.”
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Danton's Death
Leaving January 1
Directed by Alice Diop | 65 mins | 2011
Skillfully illustrating the persistence of racialized stereotyping and its impact on the individual, Diop’s documentary follows the professional struggles of a young Black actor from Aulnay-sous-bois, a disadvantaged community on the outs... -
Towards Tenderness
Leaving January 1
Directed by Alice Diop | 40 mins | 2016
Four young men from the Parisian banlieues discourse on sex and love in this up-close and confessional, César-winning exploration of the contemporary male gaze. As in "Danton’s Death" (2011), the filmmaker Alice Diop is present in the fil... -
On Call
Leaving January 1
Directed by Alice Diop | 97 mins | 2016
At the end of one of the corridors of the Avicennes Hospital in Bobigny, just outside of Paris, is a medical clinic for refugees: one of just a few in France, and the no-frills setting of this bracing piece of direct cinema. The dispassio...
