Horizons / Dao / France, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau 2026
Alain Gomis’s monumental film inhabits an otherwise overlooked in-between space: during its three-hour runtime, it moves between France and Guinea-Bissau, a wedding and a memorial service, tradition and modernity, joy and sorrow, fiction and documentary. It is an innovative film shaped by the kinetic synergy between fluid camerawork and compelling editing. Gomis’s approach may circumvent narrative conventions, but this is what makes his film so engaging. It does not dictate, nor does it try to find a beginning, a middle, and an end. Instead, it captures and lets go again – the interactions between family members, togetherness and conflict, reality and transgression, a sense of home and a fragmented identity.
Vojtěch Kočárník
185 min / Color, DCP
Director Alain Gomis
/ Screenplay Alain Gomis
/ Dir. of Photography Céline Bozon, Amath Niane, Mabeye Deme
/ Music Abdullah Ibrahim (existing music), Gaspard Gomis & Space Dukes and Keïta Janota & Cie
/ Sound Dana Farzanephour, Franck Cartaut, Barnabé Marie Sadio
/ Editor Alain Gomis, Fabrice Rouaud, Assetou Koné, Dimitri Ouedraogo, Elizabeth Ndiaye, Moustapha Mbalo Dieng
/ Art Director Moussa Diene, Eliane Lorthiois
/ Producer Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon, Christophe Barral, Toufik Ayadi, Yoro Mbaye, Alain Gomis, Carlos Vaz
/ Production Les Films du Worso, Srab Films
/ Coproduction Yennenga Production, Nafi Films, Telecine Bissau Produções
/ Cast Katy Corréa, D’Johé Kouadio, Samir Guesmi, Mike Etienne, Nicolas Gomis, Fara Baco Gomis, Poundo Gomis
/ Sales The Party Film Sales
Alain Gomis. Selected filmography: As a Man (L’afrance, 2001), Andalucia (2007), Today (Aujourd’hui, 2012), Félicité (2017), Rewind & Play (2022, doc.), Dao (2026).
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