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Aulnay-sous-Bois, Paris, France. Occupations. Director. screenwriter. Years active. 2005–present. Alice Diop (born 1979) is a French filmmaker. Her films include documentaries about contemporary French society and the feature drama film Saint Omer (2022).
Jan 29, 2023 · Alice Diop receives the Lion of the Future award for Saint Omer at the Venice film festival, September 2022. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Diop says of her cultural makeup, “I’m very ...
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Dec 2, 2022 · The other day, while researching her next film, Alice Diop came upon a dark piece of her nation’s past.During a brutal period of French colonization in the 1930s, a law banned colonized people ...
Interview. January 16th 2023. By. Yasmina Price. Although the exuberant amazement of Saint Omer ’s (2022) reception has at times suggested otherwise, Alice Diop is hardly an emerging filmmaker. The sensitive and political eye behind her latest and most visible work has been trained over the course of a career that spans nearly two decades.
Jun 29, 2022 · on Jun 29, 2022. Alice Diop. Alice Diop’s Nous begins with images of a white family looking through binoculars at an apparently uninhabited landscape, then cuts to a shot of the landscape itself, as if inhabiting their point of view. Immediately, then, the film suggests that the act of looking is one worth paying attention to.
Jan 12, 2023 · In 2016, filmmaker Alice Diop attended the trial of Fabienne Kabou, who had admitted to killing her 15-month-old daughter, Adélaïde. For one week, Diop sat in a courtroom in the French town of ...
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Whether through documentary or fiction filmmaking, Alice Diop is searching for something true. Born in France to Senegalese immigrant, Diop's nonfiction films — seven in total, including 2022's award-winning Nous (We) — depict the reality of life in Paris, including bureaucratic hurdles, employment issues, and struggles with racism, as her subjects share the most intimate details of their ...
