Afrigather Named for the belittling label the older technology of Nigeria has given for its aimless youth, Alain Kassanda’s Coconut Head Era refutes this supposition by taking an enticing take a look at the productive and considerate examine of the nation’s oldest school, the College of Ibadan. A high prize winner at Cinéma du réel and New Administrators/New Movies choice, the movie particularly explores a movie membership that provides fertile floor to politically debate the pictures they’re seeing from the likes of Med Hondo and John Akomfrah and the way they connect with modern-day points. Forward of an April 26 launch at BAM from A number of Futures, we’re happy to solely debut the brand new U.S. trailer.
“In Coconut Head Era, college students kind a weekly movie collection on the College of Ibadan, the oldest collegiate establishment in Nigeria. In his sophomore characteristic documentary, director Alain Kassanda examines how this membership isn’t only a place of belonging and watching cinema, but additionally for collective motion towards the systemic downfalls at Ibadan and the world,” stated Edward Frumkin in our New Directors/New Films protection final 12 months. “All through profound moments of audio system highlighting intersectional inequalities, Kassanda inserts moments of scholars performing leisure actions to tell audiences that they’re on the earliest, precarious levels of their grownup years. Because the movie’s scope expands, a coming-of-age celebration of youth evolves right into a resistance to perpetuate the established order.”
See the unique trailer beneath.
Coconut Head Era opens on April 26 at BAM.
