A revolutionary died at 36 and we're still catching up to him.
Who was Frantz Fanon, the author of Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks, this Pan-African thinker and psychiatrist engaged in anti-colonialist struggles? Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon was not yet 20 years old when he landed, weapons in hand, on the beaches of Provence in August 1944 with thousands of soldiers from "Free France", most of whom had come from Africa, to free the country from Nazi occupation. He became a psychiatrist and ten years later joined the Algerians in their fight for independence. Died at the age of 36, he left behind a major work on the relationships of domination between the colonized and the colonizers, on the roots of racism and the emergence of a thought of a Third World in search of freedom. 60 years after his death, the film follows in the footsteps of Frantz Fanon, alongside those who knew him, to rediscover this exceptional man.
Direction
Lallaoui lets Fanon's words breathe like ghost testimony.
Editing
Archive footage that feels illegally intimate.
Director
Medhi Lallaoui
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks' was banned in France until 1990—seventeen years after his death and nearly three decades after publication.
The film reveals Fanon treated both Algerian torture victims and French soldiers suffering 'war neurosis'—simultaneously witnessing trauma from both sides of the colonial machine.
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