Born in Paris in 1972 to a French mother and a Senegalese father, Alain Gomis makes fiction on the threshold of documentary, shaped by exile and the lingering aftershocks of colonisation. A Senegalese student without papers in Paris, a singer crossing Kinshasa to save her son, a man living his last day in Dakar: his characters confront the blind spots of history. Gomis describes his cinema as “an ‘I’ that says ‘we’”. For more than twenty years he has worked with the same crew, and he claims collective authorship of “Dao”, his latest film. In Dakar, he founded the Centre Yennenga, where he trains a new generation of West African filmmakers.

As a Man
Alain Gomis, FRA, 2001, FIC, 90'
In Paris, El Hadj sees his future disrupted when he fails to renew his residence permit and faces the threat of deportation.
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Andalucia
Alain Gomis, FRA, ESP, 2007, FIC, 90'
From Paris to Andalusia, Yacine searches for a place between identities, geographies and a genealogy he never knew.
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Dao
Alain Gomis, FRA, SEN, GNB, 2026, FIC, DOC, 185'
Between a wedding in France and an ancestral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau, a family moves through memory, ritual and transmission.
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Rewind & Play
Alain Gomis, FRA, DEU, 2022, DOC, 65'
Unused footage from an interview with Thelonious Monk reveals the mechanisms through which television shapes the construction of representations.
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Today
Alain Gomis, FRA, SEN, 2012, FIC, 88'
Satche knows he has only one day left to live. In Dakar, he revisits the places and people that have shaped his past.
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Félicité
Alain Gomis, FRA, SEN, BEL, 2017, FIC, 123'
A fiercely independent singer crosses Kinshasa to raise the money needed for her injured son's operation.
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