Part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival

CLOSING NIGHT

🕖 VIP Reception: 5:30 PM

🎬 Screening: 6:30 PM

Fanon

Followed by a Q&A with director Jean-Claude Barny

This powerful biographical drama, Fanon, from director Jean-Claude Barny (of Guadeloupean and Trinidadian origin), focuses on the transformative years of Martiniquan psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon in 1950s Algeria.

Newly appointed to the Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, Fanon (Alexandre Bouyer) witnesses systemic injustice, as the institutional violence inflicted on Algerian patients mirrors the brutal colonial oppression outside the hospital walls.

The film dramatizes Fanon’s radicalization as his humanistic compassion shifts into political action, leading him to support the Algerian independence movement (the FLN) while writing his seminal work, The Wretched of the Earth.

Fanon is a compelling and timely cinematic examination of decolonization, identity, and the profound, enduring mental and political wounds inflicted by the colonial project.