Alice Diop: Traces of the Margins

A Senegalese French child of the Paris suburbs that figure so prominently in her work, filmmaker Alice Diop has, in her documentaries 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 of the outskirts of the world”) 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.” Along with a selected program of her own documentaries, Traces of the Margins will screen a carte blanche of films selected by Diop, creating a downtown home for the Cinémathèque idéale.

Presented with the support of Villa Albertine and Unifrance.
In Partnership with La Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde (“the ideal cinematheque of the outskirts of the world”).