Born in Kinshasa, Alain Kassanda left DRC for France at the age of 11. After studying communication he has been staging cycles of movie showings and several film festivals in various Parisian theaters since 2003. He has also been the film programmer for the movie-theater Les 39 marches in Sevran, near Paris, for five years. Alain Kassanda then moved to Ibadan, in southwestern Nigeria in 2015. TROUBLE SLEEP (2020) is the starting point of a triptych dedicated to Ibadan. His work COLETTE AND JUSTIN (2022) premiered at IDFA and won the Gilda Vieira De Mello Award at FIFDH. His latest work COCONUT HEAD GENERATION (2023) was selected at Cinéma du réel and at New Directors/New Films from Lincoln Center.