{"id":2281848,"date":"2026-02-14T11:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2281848"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:53:27","slug":"felicite-director-alain-gomis-on-his-berlinale-competition-comeback-dao-set-between-france-and-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/felicite-director-alain-gomis-on-his-berlinale-competition-comeback-dao-set-between-france-and-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Felicit\u00e9\u2019 Director Alain Gomis on His Berlinale Competition Comeback \u2018Dao\u2019 Set Between France and West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nine years after winning the Silver Bear for \u201cF\u00e9licit\u00e9,\u201d French director Alain Gomis<\/a> is returning to the Berlin International Film Festival with \u201cDao<\/a>,\u201d his most personal work yet \u2014 a three-hour family saga set between France and West Africa.<\/p>\n

The helmer, who has Bissau-Guinean and Senegalese origins, wrote and directed the film which stars a mix of actors and newcomers, leading with Katy Correa and D\u2019Joh\u00e9 Kouadio<\/a> as a mother-and-daughter duo. The story follows them across two ceremonies, a wedding in Paris and funeral in Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n

In his very first interview discussing the film, Gomis tells Variety that \u201cDao<\/a>\u201d did not emerge from a single idea but from a life experience.<\/p>\n

The initial spark dates back to 2018, after attending his father\u2019s funeral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau, which was a powerful experience for him. \u201cI remember thinking: I\u2019d like to make a film out of this. I didn\u2019t know how,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nine years after winning the Silver Bear for \u201cF\u00e9licit\u00e9,\u201d French director Alain Gomis is returning to the Berlin International Film Festival with \u201cDao,\u201d his most personal work yet \u2014 a three-hour family saga set between France and West Africa. The helmer, who has Bissau-Guinean and Senegalese origins, wrote and directed the film which stars a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2281849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2281848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Felicite-Director-Alain-Gomis-on-His-Berlinale-Competition-Comeback-\u2018Dao.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281850,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281848\/revisions\/2281850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}