MEG's Sunday movies continue for a season around three essential and current notions: decolonisation, gender and sustainability.

Documentary, fiction and animation films addressing these themes will be screened free of charge in the Museum's Auditorium on several Sundays each month.

The MEG is once again partnering with the FIFDH to screen a film as part of the festival.

Film: Colette and Justin by Alain Kassanda

African of Congolese origin, Alain Kassanda retraces his family history and that of the Belgian colonisation of the Congo, then its independence. In this intimate film, he succeeds in placing the major political events that have marked the history of the Congo by using historical and family archive images, the memories of his grandparents and accompanies the story with a poetic voice-over. This film questions the double view of colonization and immigration, from the point of view of those who lived through it and who inherited it.

Film in VO with French and English subtitles.

In the presence of the director.

Speaker:

• Alain Kassanda, director of the film.

Born in Kinshasa, Alain Kassanda left the DRC for France when he was 11 years old. After studying communication, he started organizing film screenings, and festivals in Parisian cinemas. He then became a programmer for an arthouse cinema in the suburbs of Paris, and then moved to Ibadan, Nigeria, from 2015 to 2019. There he directed Trouble Sleep, a medium-length film focused on the world of the road from the perspective of a cab driver and a tax collector. The film received the Golden Dove for best short film at the Dok Leipzig festival in 2020 and the special mention of the jury at the Visions du Réel festival. This was followed by Colette et Justin, a feature film intertwining family and the history of the decolonization of the Congo, in international competition at IDFA in 2022.