Born in 1979, lives and works in Paris.
Since 2005, Alice Diop has been making documentaries and feature films that have screened in multiple international festivals. Several of her works have been set in Seine-Saint-Denis on the outskirts of Paris: Clichy pour l’exemple (2006), La mort de Danton (2011), RER B (2017) and Vers la tendresse (2016), which won a César Award for best short in 2017. Her first feature, La Permanence (2016) won international acclaim. The director followed up with Nous (2021), which won the Encounters Award at Berlin, as well as Best Documentary Award. As an artist whose activism extends beyond the screen, she came up with the idea for an Ideal Cinematheque of the Outskirts of the World in collaboration with Centre Pompidou and Ateliers Médicis. In 2022, Alice Diop’s transition from documentary to fiction was a dazzling success when