Alice Diop

Alice Diop (*1979) is a French film director and screenwriter. She studied history and visual sociology.

With a deliberately calm but uncompromising visual language, she addresses topics such as identity, migration and colonialism. Her films tell the stories of people whose voices are rarely heard in public. Her work is characterised by Diop's desire to bring unique life stories from the margins to the centre. In doing so, she transforms personal stories into political images. Diop, who grew up as the daughter of a Senegalese family in the ‘Cité des 3000’ in Aulnay-sous-Bois, a Parisian suburb, is a prominent figure in a new, politically engaged French cinema.

With Le Voyage de la Vénus Noire, her stage debut, she is coming to Austria for the first time to the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna.

Diop received the award for best documentary film at the 2021 Berlinale, the Silver Lion in Venice in 2022, and was part of the jury for the Academy Award (Oscar) in 2024. Her best-known films include Saint Omer (2022), Nous (We) (2021) and Vers la tendresse (2016).