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Coconut Head Generation

Newly Added • 1h 33m

Directed by Alain Kassanda • 2023 • France, Nigeria

Every Thursday, a group of students from the University of Ibadan, the oldest in Nigeria, organizes a film club, transforming a small lecture hall into a vibrant forum where they develop a critical voice, using cinema as a springboard to discuss an array of contemporary political and social issues. “Coconut-head generation”—a derogatory term intended to deride supposedly shallow, empty-headed youth—takes on a whole new meaning when these passionate and engaged students turn this stigma around to assert their freedom of thought.

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