{"id":15173,"date":"2023-08-13T14:42:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrikaldia.com\/?p=15173"},"modified":"2023-09-21T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:43:09","slug":"alain-kassanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrikaldia.com\/en\/2023\/08\/13\/alain-kassanda\/","title":{"rendered":"ALAIN KASSANDA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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BIO<\/strong><\/p>

Born in Kinshasa, Alain Kassanda left the DRC for France at the age of 11. After studying communication, he has been staging cycles of movie showings in various Parisian theaters. He then became the programmer of an art house cinema for five years, in Paris, before moving to Ibadan, in southwestern Nigeria, from 2015 to 2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

There he directed <\/span>Trouble Sleep<\/span><\/i>, a medium-length film centered on the road, depicted from the perspectives of a taxi driver and a tax collector. The film received the Golden Dove for best film at the <\/span>Dok Leipzig festival<\/span><\/i> in 2020 and the special mention of the jury at the <\/span>Visions du r\u00e9el festival<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This was followed by <\/span>Colette and Justin<\/span><\/i>, a feature film intertwining his family history and the history of the decolonization of the Congo and AFRIKALDIA presents it as a national premiere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The film was part of the international competition at Idfa in 2022. <\/span>Coconut Head Generation<\/span><\/i>, his third film, focusing on students in Nigeria, recently won the Grand Prize at <\/span>Cin\u00e9ma du r\u00e9el<\/span><\/i>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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FILMOGRAPHY<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

2020<\/span><\/b>\u202f<\/span>Trouble Sleep<\/em> medium-length documentary <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

2022<\/span><\/b>\u202f<\/span>Colette & Justin<\/em> documentary <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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