NATIONAL DIPLOMA

  • Dieudo Hamadi
  • Documentary
  • 2013
  • 1h30

Examen d’Etat follows a group of young Congolese high school

students who are about to sit the exam for their National Diploma, the equivalent of the French

baccalaureate, in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. Dieudo Hamadi’s camera films them as

they prepare for the exam, from the benches of the school that they are regularly ejected from

because they haven’t paid the “teachers’ fees” to the “maquis” (a communal house) where they

gather to revise and the chaotic streets of the city where they spend their time “looking for a

living”.

Photography
  • Dieudo Hamadi
Sound
  • Dieudo Hamadi
Editing
  • Rodolphe Molla
Production
  • Agat Films
  • Marie Balducchi
Coproduction
  • Studios Kabako
  • Karoninka
  • Vosges Télévision
  • Vidéo de Poche
Video editor POTEMKINE