Alain Kassanda

Alain Kassanda

Biography

Alain Kassanda's debut film starts off as a process of self-examination: How well does he actually know his grandparents? How true are his ideas about his birth country DR Congo, whose national identity was partly molded by the Belgian colonizers? How much does he know about himself? He finally gets his grandparents COLETTE AND JUSTIN to reflect on their lives, from their youth to their first encounter with a complex political period that followed independence, in which his grandfather Justin played a not inconsiderable role. Alain Kassanda travels through time and his own past, bringing post-colonial Congo to the surface. The deep traces left by colonialism are omnipresent.

Filmography

COLETTE ET JUSTIN (2022): Direction

COCONUT HEAD GENERATION (2023): Direction