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"Hot on the heels of the premiere theatrical run of his brilliant documentary COCONUT HEAD GENERATION – which details the use of a student cinema club in Nigeria as a vanguard of political activism – filmmaker Alain Kassanda will be at Spectacle for one night only to present two films in dialogue about his home country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kassanda’s friend and contemporary Dieudo Hamadi’s is one of the most promising young documentarians working out of Africa (or anywhere); his documentary NATIONAL DIPLOMA follows a class of students navigating a fraught educational system, ultimately testifying to the bizarre bureaucratic rigamarole that betrays the long afterlife of Belgian colonialism. NATIONAL DIPLOMA will be followed by Kassanda’s 2022 documentary COLETTE AND JUSTIN, which tells the story of the said colonial exploitation through mesmerizing interviews with Kassanda’s grandparents. Each film will be introduced by Kassanda and followed by a discussion." —Spectacle