Frantz Fanon / Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l'hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956 (True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956)
STATUS: Released
Frantz Fanon / Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l'hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956 (True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956)
Set between 1953 and 1956, this black-and-white historical feature follows philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon – author of Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – during his tenure as Head of the Fifth Ward at Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in colonial Algeria. Immersed in the emerging Algerian liberation movement, Fanon rejects colonial psychiatric doctrine, introducing a radical practice grounded in dignity, humanity, and emancipation. The film traces the intimate links between mental illness and colonial oppression, psychological trauma and imperial violence, revealing how Fanon's ideas were not only theorized but lived – pulsing through every act of care.
