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SUR LES TRACES DE FRANTZ FANON (IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FRANTZ FANON)





Credits

Name: SUR LES TRACES DE FRANTZ FANON (IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FRANTZ FANON)

Country: Algerien/Frankreich

Year of publication: 2021

Format: digital

Color: color and b/w

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 93 min Minuten

Series: 18. Afrikafilmfestival

Direction: Lallaoui, Mehdi

Abstract

‘As a doctor, he knew human suffering. As a psychiatrist, he observed the impact on the human mind of traumatic events. Above all, as a colonial man he felt and understood what it was to be born and live in a colonial situation.’ Mehdi Lallaoui’s documentary begins with these words by Aimé Césaire and historical footage of Frantz Fanon’s funeral in 1961. It also includes perspectives from companions of the freedom fighter and theorist Fanon, including his assistant Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, his biographer Alice Cherki, who campaigned alongside him for the revolutionisation of psychiatry in North Africa, and historian Jean Khalfa. Their testimonies attest to Fanon’s lasting importance in the struggle against colonialism and racism and ‘for a global humanism’.

A workshop after the film screening will give you the opportunity to discuss Fanon’s relevance at the time of the Black Lives Matter movement with Mehdi Lallaoui and Fatima Sissani.