"Dao" d'Alain Gomis : une famille entre l'Afrique et la France

Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis premieres 'Dao', a hybrid film exploring familial bonds across continents, in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. | Contesto: cronaca

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• "Dao" d'Alain Gomis : une famille entre l'Afrique et la France

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The Berlin International Film Festival's competition lineup featured the world premiere of 'Dao', the latest film from acclaimed Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis. The choral narrative, which moves between France and Guinea-Bissau, weaves together themes of marriage and funerals, blending fiction with documentary techniques to explore the invisible threads connecting families across generations and geography. In 'Dao', Gomis continues his long-standing cinematic investigation into diaspora, belonging, and the complex emotional landscapes that span continents. The director, known for films like 'L'Afrance', 'Aujourd'hui', and the Silver Bear-winning 'Félicité', describes the project as a collective experience where reality consistently intrudes upon the fictional framework. This approach results in a film that exists in a fluid space, challenging conventional genre boundaries to capture a more authentic, lived experience of transnational life. The production itself mirrored its thematic concerns, operating as a bridge between Europe and West Africa. By setting significant portions of the story in Guinea-Bissau and involving local communities and non-professional actors, Gomis fostered an environment where the line between performance and documentary observation became deliberately porous. This method allows the film to articulate a sense of connection that is not bound by physical territory, instead focusing on the cultural and spiritual ties that persist despite distance and difference. For Gomis, cinema is fundamentally a vessel for connection and tolerance. He argues that the medium's power lies in its ability to make visible the shared human conditions that underlie superficial divisions. In 'Dao', the simultaneous narratives of celebration and mourning—a wedding in one location, a funeral in another—serve as a potent metaphor for the continuous cycle of joy and loss that defines family life, whether its members are separated by a neighborhood or an ocean. The film posits that these universal rites are the anchors of identity in a dispersed world. The critical reception at Berlin places Gomis firmly within a vital tradition of African and diaspora...

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