• Towards Tenderness

  • Towards Tenderness

  • Senegalese Meet Sene-Gallic



Short Films by Alice Diop: Towards Tenderness

(Vers la tendresse)

Alice Diop
France, 2016

“The title Towards Tenderness evokes both the project and narrative movement of the film. The project resulted from my will to explore these voices, to convince these young men [living in the Paris suburbs] that accessing tenderness was a desirable horizon, that the right to and the possibility of tenderness resided in them” (Alice Diop).

FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Sarah Blum
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 38 mins
Source
  • L’Agence du Court Métrage
Followed By

Senegalese Meet Sene-Gallic
(Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise)

Alice Diop, France, Senegal, 2007

Alice Diop was born in France to Senegalese parents. She traveled to Dakar for the first time with her father’s remains. She set up her camera in the courtyard of the house where her mother lived before leaving for France in 1966. Thus, she became familiar with the daily life of her aunts and cousins. Then she realized that she was filming the life she might have had if her mother had stayed in Senegal.

Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Wolof
  • French
  • with English and French subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 56 mins
source
  • Point du Jour
Additional Info
  • Thanks to Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art