Documentaries by Alain Kassanda

One of the most exciting emerging voices in African cinema, Congolese French filmmaker Alain Kassanda makes immersive, thought-provoking documentaries that connect the lived experiences of everyday people to larger social and political questions. Turning his observant camera on both his grandparents (COLETTE AND JUSTIN), whose lives were shaped by Belgian colonialism, and on Nigeria’s younger generation (TROUBLE SLEEP, COCONUT HEAD GENERATION), Kassanda crafts eloquent, dynamic, politically engaged films that question existing power structures and offer a vital corrective to reductive images of contemporary Africa.