Description: 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. [Berlin]
Overview
Production Company:
- Les Films du Worso
- Srab Films
- Yennenga Productions
- Nafi Films
- Telecine Bissau Produçoes
- Canal+ Afrique
- Canal+
- Ciné+OCS
- TV5MONDE
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Fonds de Promotion de l'Industrie Cinématographique et Audiovisuelle du Sénégal (FOPICA)
- Fonds Images de la Francophonie
- Cinécap 7
- Cinéventure 9
- Arte Cofinova 20
- Cofinova 20
- Indéfilms 12
Duration:3 h 5 m
