Two films on the life of the Martinican psychiatrist and Algerian independence activist Frantz Fanon are competing for audiences in France. Perhaps rather in the way of passengers on London buses, ...

Swedish filmmaker taps into the primary violence of the coloniser rather than the colonised, says Bhakti Shringarpure Concerning Violence, the latest documentary from Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo ...

Barny, who hails from Guadeloupe, said it was important to understand Fanon's Caribbean culture, his Western culture, his African culture, but also to view him as a man "capable of absorbing all ...

In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle. Behind a locked door, ...

French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon crystallised thinking about the way colonialism flourishes by dehumanising the oppressed, and Fanon dramatises a formative period in the 1950s that he spent in Algeria ...

Cinephiles and pan-African activists are encouraged to attend the forthcoming film screenings reflecting on not only the legacy of Patrice Lumumba but also Frantz Fanon and Ashley Kriel. The first ...

This sober but compelling study of the man who radically transformed treatment at an Algerian hospital explores the link between mental illness and imperialist violence Having previously co-directed a ...

His BFI film on Frantz Fanon, made in 1995, co-written and directed with Mark Nash, focuses on the story of the psychiatrist from Martinique who made his name as a vivid and penetrating theoretician ...

scheda film]. Pur essendo incentrato sullo stesso periodo della sua vita, il nuovo film del regista francese Jean-Claude Barny (anch'egli originario della Guadalupa e di Trinidad e Tobago), intitolato ...

When Frantz Fanon was in late stages of leukemia at age 36, he was flown to a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland in the United States, for surgery. His five-year-old son, Olivier, walked in on an ongoing ...

This season of Spotlight on Africa concludes ahead of the summer break with a focus on Frantz Fanon in the year of his centenary. It also highlights a groundbreaking new report by UNESCO on the state ...