NEU YDSA: Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Start: Sunday, March 30, 2025• 7:30 PM
End: Sunday, March 30, 2025• 9:30 PM
Northeastern University YDSA is inviting Boston DSA members to join them for a screening of Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat at East Village 008/010, 291 Saint Botolph St, Boston at 730 pm.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is a 2024 documentary film directed by Johan Grimonprez about the Cold War episode that led American musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. It features excerpts from My Country, Africa by Andrée Blouin; Congo Inc. by In Koli Jean Bofane; To Katanga and Back by Conor Cruise O'Brien; and audio memoirs by Nikita Khrushchev.
The film had its world premiere premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on 22 January. It won the André Cavens Award for Best Film from the Belgian Film Critics Association. At the 97th Academy Awards it was nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film.