Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis studied art history at the Sorbonne. He made his directorial debut with L’Afrance (2002), which won a Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. His film Andalucia (2012) had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Today (2011) was presented in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and won a Golden Stallion at Fespaco. Gomis returned to the Berlinale in 2017 with Félicité, which won the Grand Jury Prize, went on to take the director’s second Gold Stallion at Fespaco, and was Senegal’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Rewind & Play (2022), Gomis’s first documentary film, had its premiere at the Berlinale and went on to win numerous prizes at various film festivals.