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This debut film by Alain Kassanda starts off as a process of self-examination: How well does he really know his grandparents? How true are his ideas about his birth country DR Congo, whose national identity was partly molded by the Belgian colonizers? And, by extension, how much does he know about himself? In Colette et Justin, Kassanda travels through time and his own past, in the process bringing postcolonial Congo to evocative life.Read moreLess
This debut film by Alain Kassanda starts off as a process of self-examination: How well does he really know his grandparents? How true are his ideas about his birth country DR Congo, whose national identity was partly molded by the Belgian colonizers? And, by extension, how much does he know about himself? In Colette et Justin, Kassanda travels through time and his own past, in the process bringing postcolonial Congo to evocative life.
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This debut film by Alain Kassanda starts off as a process of self-examination: How well does he really know his grandparents? How true are his ideas about his birth country DR Congo, whose national identity was partly molded by the Belgian colonizers? And, by extension, how much does he know about himself? In Colette et Justin, Kassanda travels through time and his own past, in the process bringing postcolonial Congo to evocative life.
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Alain KassandaExplore the crew
- Editor
- Alain Kassanda
- Producer
- Damien Monnier
- Director of Photography
- Alain Kassanda
- Director
- Alain Kassanda
- Writer
- Alain Kassanda
- Producer
- Annabelle Gangneux
- Editor
- Thomas Vandecasteele
- Original Music Composer
- Wendo Kolosoy
- Original Music Composer
- Florent Dupuit