Abdenour Zahzah is an Algerian screenwriter, director and producer. His first film, the documentary Frantz Fanon, mémoire d’asile, was released in 2002. He then traveled to France, where he made two documentary films, and a film with the writer Maurice Pons. Returning to Algeria in 2007, he made several commissioned documentaries, and a multi-award-winning short fiction film, Garagouz. After a feature-length documentary, L’Oued, he directed his first feature-length fiction film in 2024, about Dr. Frantz Fanon’s Blida-Joinville years. Photo by Mehdi Nédellec.
1953, colonized Algeria. Frantz Fanon, a young black psychiatrist from Martinique, is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. As he puts his theories of “institutional psychotherapy” into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algiers School of Psychiatry, a war breaks out on his own wards.
A Q+A with Abdenour Zahzah will follow the screening.
