Alain Gomis

Directing

Alain Gomis

Born

1972-03-06 (54)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Alain Gomis is a French-Senegalese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2017 film Félicité, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, along with being Senegal's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.

Known for

L'Invité poster
4.5

The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture.

L'Invité

2002

Dao poster
4.2

A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.

Dao

2026

Andalucia poster
7.2

Yacine is in his 30s, of Algerian origins, and has come to Paris looking for inner peace. A playful and poetic quest leads him via all kinds of strange encounters to an increasingly surrealist world and to Andalusia: a state of mind.

Andalucia

2008

Little Light poster
6.5

Fatima is a little girl of eight years. By opening and closing the refrigerator, she wonders if the light stays on when the door closes...

Little Light

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tourbillons

1999

L'afrance poster
5.3

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.

L'afrance

2001

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Dao poster
4.2

A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.

Dao

2026

Dao poster
4.2

A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.

Dao

2026

Andalucia poster
7.2

Yacine is in his 30s, of Algerian origins, and has come to Paris looking for inner peace. A playful and poetic quest leads him via all kinds of strange encounters to an increasingly surrealist world and to Andalusia: a state of mind.

Andalucia

2008

Andalucia poster
7.2

Yacine is in his 30s, of Algerian origins, and has come to Paris looking for inner peace. A playful and poetic quest leads him via all kinds of strange encounters to an increasingly surrealist world and to Andalusia: a state of mind.

Andalucia

2008

Little Light poster
6.5

Fatima is a little girl of eight years. By opening and closing the refrigerator, she wonders if the light stays on when the door closes...

Little Light

2003

Little Light poster
6.5

Fatima is a little girl of eight years. By opening and closing the refrigerator, she wonders if the light stays on when the door closes...

Little Light

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tourbillons

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tourbillons

1999

L'afrance poster
5.3

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.

L'afrance

2001

L'afrance poster
5.3

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.

L'afrance

2001

Today poster
7.3

Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.

Today

2013

Today poster
7.3

Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.

Today

2013

Les délices du monde poster
NR

A woman living in the projects decides to run for mayor. At first she is taken as a joke but slowly picks up steam and is taken serious.

Les délices du monde

2015

Félicité poster
6.7

Félicité, a strong and proud woman, sings in bars in Kinshasa. She drifts away from reality when her 14-year-old son gets into an accident. In electric Kinshasa, she wanders in a world of music & dreams... until love unexpectedly brings her back to life.

Félicité

2017

Félicité poster
6.7

Félicité, a strong and proud woman, sings in bars in Kinshasa. She drifts away from reality when her 14-year-old son gets into an accident. In electric Kinshasa, she wanders in a world of music & dreams... until love unexpectedly brings her back to life.

Félicité

2017

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing poster
5.3

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

2019

Rewind & Play poster
7.3

The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.

Rewind & Play

2023

Rewind & Play poster
7.3

The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.

Rewind & Play

2023

Rewind & Play poster
7.3

The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.

Rewind & Play

2023

Conversations avec Elom poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Conversations avec Elom

2026