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ISSUE 31  ·  JUL 25 2026  ·  FILM

Dao — Alain Gomis

Dao — Alain Gomis
Three hours cut between a Paris wedding and a Guinea-Bissau funeral until the line between the two disappears. Berlin gave it a Golden Bear nomination — the room got there before the culture did, for once. Gomis keeps building outside the systems that would flatten this into "immigrant cinema."
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