Trouble Sleep

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Trouble Sleep

Trouble Sleep
Alain Kassanda
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
France,
Nigeria
2020
40 minutes
English,
Yoruba
Subtitles: 
English

While the transaction tax collectors seem to be dancing to jazz music, a pointedly staged text passage by Patrick Chamoiseau lets not only our visual and auditory but also our olfactory senses unfold: The third-largest Nigerian city can be experienced by smell. In this rhythmic portrait of life in Ibadan the urban cinematic poetry is by no means at odds with the profundity with which it captures themes like lack of perspective, globalisation and corruption.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Alain Kassanda
Script
Alain Kassanda
Cinematographer
Alain Kassanda
Editor
Alain Kassanda
Producer
Alain Kassanda
Sound
Alain Kassanda
Score
Florent Dupuit, Jr EakEe
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Documentary (International Competition Short Film)