Film-maker warns against ‘rampant racism’ in France as election approaches

Alice Diop, whose documentaries have explored the lives of people in housing estates, wants to mobilise voters against the far right

The award-winning French film-maker Alice Diop has warned of rampant racism" in France and launched a collective to mobilise residents of housing estates to vote in the snap election in an attempt to hold back the far right.

For people like me it's life or death," said the acclaimed director, as Marine Le Pen's far-right anti-immigration National Rally (RN) is forecast by pollsters to take the largest number of seats in the French parliament on 7 July and is seeking an absolute majority to form a government.