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Today- Tey ( Senegal 2012 )

Color: Fiction, color, 86’

Direction: Alain Gomis

Screenplay: Alain Gomis

Director of Photography: Christelle Fournier

Editing: Fabrice Rouaud

Cast: Saül Williams, Djolof M’Bengue, Anisa Uzeyman, mariko Arame, Aîssa Maiga

Synopsis

Today is the last day of his life. He knows this to be true even though he is strong and healthy. Nonetheless Satché accepts his imminent death. Walking through the streets of his home town in Senegal he takes in the sites of his past as if he were looking at them for the last time: his parents’ house, his first love, the friends of his youth, his wife and children.

Réalisateur

Alain Gomis was born in Paris in 1972 of a French mother and Senegalese father. He directed several short films before shooting his debut feature L’Afrance in 2001, which won awards including the ecumenical jury prize and the silver leopard in Locarno. Tey is Alain’s third feature.