Alice Diop in Person
September 3–18, 2026
In conjunction with her residency at UC Berkeley as 2026–27 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities and Pajus Distinguished Visitor in French Studies, BAMPFA presents a retrospective of Alice Diop’s cinema of formal rigor and ethical commitment.
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Alice Diop: Saint Omer, 2022
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Alice Diop: La permanence, 2016
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Alice Diop: We, 2021
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Alice Diop: Senegalese Meet Sene-Gallic, 2007
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Alice Diop: Towards Tenderness, 2016
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Alice Diop: Fragments for Venus, 2025
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Saint Omer
Alice Diop
France, 2022Thursday, September 3, 7 PMAlice Diop and Debarati Sanyal in ConversationView DetailsAlice Diop’s first venture into narrative after more than a decade of documentary filmmaking, Saint Omer follows a young novelist observing the trial of a woman accused of murdering her child. “A complex, brilliant film” (New Yorker).
We
Alice Diop
France, 2021Friday, September 4, 7 PMAlice Diop and Maya Sidhu in ConversationView DetailsA journey along the suburban train line that spans Paris blossoms into a representation of the myriad voices, cultures, and experiences that make up France. “A tender homage to the unnoticed” (The Guardian).
On Call
Alice Diop
France, 2016Thursday, September 10, 7 PMAlice Diop and Iggy Cortez in ConversationView DetailsOne small medical office holds an eternity of stories in Alice Diop’s fly-on-the-wall observational documentary that bears witness to a doctor’s steady stream of patients—immigrants, refugees, and undocumented immigrants—as they reveal their physical and mental suffering. “To see On Call is a therapy against the reflexes of exclusion” (Olivier Barlet, Black Camera).
Danton’s Death
Alice Diop
France, 2011Sunday, September 13, 3:30 PMAlice Diop and Damon Young in ConversationView DetailsAlice Diop’s Danton’s Death brings to light the struggles of a young Black actor from the rough Parisian suburbs, versed in the classics yet only offered “street” roles. In Towards Tenderness, she follows four young Black men “acting” masculine in the streets, with more complicated dreams unexpressed.
Senegalese Meet Sene-Gallic
Alice Diop
France, Senegal, 2007Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk at 6 PM.
Friday, September 18, 7 PMIntroduced by Maya SidhuView DetailsTwo shorts that mark the beginning and the current state of Alice Diop’s visionary filmmaking: Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise finds her musing on migration, exile, and fate in her mother’s former home in Senegal, while Fragments for Venus (2025) follows one woman’s visit to the Louvre to see Black lives in art, and another’s visit to Bed-Stuy to witness the art of Black life.