Since 2005, Alice Diop has been making documentaries and fiction films that are screened at international festivals. In 2017, she won the César Award for Best Short Film with Vers la tendresse, and the following year she won the Grand Prix in the French competition at the Festival Cinéma du réel for her documentary La Permanence. Alice Diop won two awards at the 2021 Berlinale for her film Nous, taking home the Grand Prix in the Encounters competition as well as the Best Documentary Film Award. Her first fiction film, Saint Omer, was selected for the official competition at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion and the Golden Lion of the Future; and in 2023, the César Award for Best First Film. Alongside her work in cinema, she taught at Harvard as a visiting artist-professor and ventured into the world of theatre and performance for the first time in 2023 at the Festival d’Automne during a Carte Blanche entitled Reformuler, dedicated to her, for which she invited numerous artists.