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Interview with Alain Gomis on "Dao"

Interview with Alain Gomis on "Dao"

Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals vor 5 Monaten

"It‘s difficult for African cinema to be itself"

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His multidimensional works centering on the experience of the
African diaspora established Alain Gomis as a leading voice of
contemporary independent cinema. After winning the Berlinale Silver
Bear for his sensitive drama Félicité, the French-Senegalese
director has returned to the festival’s competition with his 2012
existentialist study Today, and his latest feature Dao. Moving
between documentary and fiction, the experimental exploration of
heritage, cultural identity, and belonging takes its group of
French-Guinea-Bissauan protagonists on a transformative journey to
the country of their ancestors and back to a French wedding. For
the cinematic release of Dao, Alain Gomis spoke with Lidanoir about
the personal origin of the film project, real emotions in fictional
settings, the importance of representation, and why Europe’s
cinematic image of African countries is stuck in the past.