FANON

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FANON

Thursday, April 30th, 2026 at 7PM Central time
Annie May Swift Hall – Auditorium, Northwestern University

Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary. Director Jean-Claude Barny’s new biopic Fanon (2024, 133 min., French and Arabic with subtitles) takes us to 1950s Algeria under French colonial rule, where Fanon spent formative years as chief medical officer of the Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital. Confronting entrenched racism and resistance to his innovative methods, Fanon pushes to offer more humane treatment to his Algerian patients and begins to forge the political thinking that would shape his landmark writings on how colonialism flourishes by dehumanizing the oppressed. Filled with mounting tension and moral dilemmas, the film follows Fanon as he begins to align himself with the Algerian independence movement and the National Liberation Front (FLN).

The Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab is proud to collaborate with the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute to host this special screening of Fanon, which is currently not in distribution in the U.S.  

Followed by a conversation with psychoanalyst and Dean of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Ramya B. Iyer, LCSW and Northwestern University’s Michael Anthony Turcios, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Screen Cultures in the Department of Radio/Television/Film.

Free and open to the public. More information here.

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