Dao is a perpetual circular movement framing reality. A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.
Alain Gomis
A French-Senegalese director and screenwriter, born in Paris in 1972. He studied Art History and Film at the Sorbonne University before making his feature film debut with ‘As a Man’ (2001), which earned him the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as the Ecumenical Jury Prize and the Youth Jury Prize. With ‘Andalucia’ he competed in Venice in the Venice Days section, and with ‘Today’ (2012) he participated in the Official Selection of the Berlinale, where he returned in 2017 with ‘Félicité’ (which won the Grand Jury Prize and represented Senegal at the Oscars), in 2022 with ‘Rewind and Play’, his first feature-length documentary (awarded at Hot Docs), and in 2026 with ‘Dao’. In 2018, he created the Yennenga Centre in Dakar, Senegal, a cinema socio-cultural centre and school, to develop production and post-production in West Africa.
DIRECTOR
Alain Gomis
SCREENPLAY
Alain Gomis
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Céline Bozon, Amath Niane, Mabeye Deme
EDITOR
Alain Gomis, Fabrice Rouaud, Assetou Koné, Dimitri Ouedraogo, Elisabeth Ndiaye
SOUND
Dana Farzanehpour, Franck Cartaut, Barnabé Marie Sadio
MUSIC
Abdullah Ibrahim, Gaspard Gomis & Space Dukes, Keïta Janota & Cie
