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TRUE CHRONICLE OF THE BLIDA JOINVILLE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL IN THE LAST CENTURY, WHEN DR FRANTZ FANON WAS HEAD OF THE FIFTH WARD BETWEEN 1953 AND 1956
May 31@ 12:00 pm
By: Abdenour Zahzah
- Country: Algeria, France
- Language: Arabic, French w/English Subs
- Duration: 90 mins
- Year: 2024
- Genre: Fiction
SYNOPSIS
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.