DAO
Alain Gomis
2026 France, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, 185 min.
Feature film, color, French, Wolof, Manjak, Guinea-Bissau Creole with English subtitles
SATURDAY 08. NOVEMBER 2026 | 19H
MOVIE 2 | MOVIEMENTO
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The film begins with a definition of its title: “DAO is a perpetual and circular movement which flows in everything and unites the world.” And then it proceeds to take us to the casting of Gloria, a character whose daughter is about to be married. An off-screen voice directing the casting session tells us that “the first step is to make this family”. Actors and non-actors are cast and brought together to become relatives who will all celebrate a wedding in Paris and commemorate the loss of their patriarch in Guinea-Bissau. Their individual stories and their common threads of heritage are woven together with fact and fiction as they travel between these two worlds; love, laughter, ritual, pain and history intertwined. Perpetual circular movement framing reality.
Cast: Katy Correa (Gloria), D’Johé Kouadio (Nour), Samir Guesmi (Slimane), Mike Etienne (James), Nicolas Gomis (Pierre), Fara Baco Gomis (Jean), Poundo Gomis (Diminga)
