Centre Pompidou Retrospective Spotlights Franco-Senegalese Filmmaker Alain Gomis
On June 19, 2026, the Centre Pompidou opened a retrospective of Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis coinciding with his receipt of the Jean Vigo d'honneur prize for his body of work. The six-feature director, born in Paris in 1972 to a Senegalese father and French mother, has created films that interweave professional and non-professional performers to surface overlooked narratives from recent history, including Dao (2026) and Rewind and Play (2022). Gomis founded the Yennenga centre in Dakar in 2018 to provide artistic and political resources to West African filmmakers and residents.
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The retrospective underscores how institutions are amplifying voices that cross national, documentary-fiction and cultural boundaries at a moment when representation debates remain unresolved in France. For curators and programmers it signals sustained European interest in African-diaspora cinema that prioritises direct encounter over didactic framing, while the Yennenga initiative offers a concrete model for decentralising production resources away from traditional industry centres.
- Artists: Alain Gomis
- People: Alain Gomis
- Museums: Centre Pompidou
- Locations: Paris
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