BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:21141@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Decolonizing Minds – The Blida-Joinville Chronicles (Fanon\, 1953–5 6) DTSTAMP:20260426T102327Z DTSTART:20260529T170000Z DTEND:20260529T200000Z DESCRIPTION:Genre: Drama\, History\, Colonialism\nLine up: Alexandre Desane \, Gérard Dubouche\, Nicolas Dromard\nOpen: 19:00 - 22:00 hrs\nTickets: € 7\,50\n\nDecolonizing Minds is a film screening and discussion series at V entilator\nCinema exploring colonial history\, resistance\, and identity t hrough Indigenous\nand diasporic cinema.\n\nThis forth edition of Decoloni zing Minds— is the first feature film about Frantz\nFanon\, the revolution ary psychiatrist\, writer\, and anti-colonial thinker whose\nideas reshape d our understanding of race\, psychology\, and liberation.\n\nThe film she ds light on the lasting consequences of colonization in North\nAfrica\, pa rticularly in Algeria\, where colonial oppression and violence have\nleft deep marks on both society and the individual psyche.\n\nThe Film\nTrue Ch ronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century\, \nwhen Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956\n\ nSynopsis\n1953\, Algeria under French colonial rule. Dr. Frantz Fanon\, a young Black\npsychiatrist newly appointed to the Blida-Joinville Hospital \, begins to apply\nhis radical ideas of institutional psychotherapy in de fiance of the racist\ndoctrines of colonial psychiatry.\n\nAs the Algerian War of Independence erupts\, Fanon’s psychiatric ward becomes a\nbattlegr ound for the minds of both colonized and colonizer. The film reveals how\n colonization infiltrated every aspect of life — from the clinic to the\nco llective consciousness — and how Fanon’s revolutionary ideas emerged in\nr esponse.\n\nShot in the hospital that now bears Fanon’s name\, director Ab denour Zahzah blurs\nthe boundaries between fiction and documentary\, comb ining professional actors\nwith real doctors\, nurses\, and even Fanon’s s on\, Olivier Fanon. The result is\,\nin Zahzah’s words\, “a representation of a living memory” — restoring Fanon’s\npresence in a place where medici ne\, politics\, and liberation once converged.\n\nAbout the Director\n\nAb denour Zahzah is an Algerian screenwriter and filmmaker\, and former direc tor\nof the Blida Cinémathèque (1998–2003). His previous works include Fra ntz Fanon\,\nmémoire d’asile (2002) and the award-winning short Garagouz. With Decolonizing\nMinds (2024)\, Zahzah makes his feature fiction debut — a bold cinematic portrait\nof Fanon’s transformative years in Algeria.\n\ nPost-Screening Talk\n\nKhadija al Mourabit — Dutch philosopher\, writer\, and poet of Amazigh-Moroccan\ndescent — will host a post-screening discus sion. Her work explores identity\,\nmigration\, and the psychological lega cy of colonialism. She will reflect on\nFanon’s ideas and the enduring imp act of colonization in North Africa today.\nwith Amina Zidane an Algerian American biochemistrs\n\nAmina Zidane - Born in Algiers Emigrated to Bosto n MASS\, Graduate of Boston\nUniversity and Brown I am a Biomedical Engine er and a Neuroscientist persuing a\nPhd.\n\nProgram\n\n19:00 Doors open\n1 9:30 - 21:00 Film screening\n21:00 - 21:30 Talk & discussion with Amina Zi dane & Khadija al Mourabit\n21:30 Drinks at the bar\n\nMore info about the film: CLICK HERE\n[https://shellacfilms.com/film/fanon/?from_ventes-inter nationales=true] URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/decolonizing-minds-the-blida-joinville- chronicles-fanon-195356 GEO:52.3601403;4.8656923 LOCATION:OT301 - Overtoom 301\, 1054 HW Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-west,colonialism,discussion,documentary,drama,film,his tory,talk,vondelparkbuurt X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Genre: Drama, History, Coloni alism
Line up: Alexandre Desane, Gérard Dubouche, Nic olas Dromard
Open: 19:00 - 22:00 hrs
Ticket s: € 7,50

Decolonizing Minds is a film scree ning and discussion series at Ventilator Cinema exploring colonial history , resistance, and identity through Indigenous and diasporic cinema.

This forth edition of Decolonizing Minds— is the first f eature film about Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary psychiatrist, w riter, and anti-colonial thinker whose ideas reshaped our understanding of race, psychology, and liberation.

The film sheds light on the lasting consequences of colonization in North Africa, particularly in Algeria, where colonial oppression and violence have left deep ma rks on both society and the individual psyche.

The Film
True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric H ospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Wa rd between 1953 and 1956

Synopsis
1953, Algeria under French colonial rule. Dr. Frantz Fanon, a young Blac k psychiatrist newly appointed to the Blida-Joinville Hospital, begins to apply his radical ideas of institutional psychotherapy in defiance of the racist doctrines of colonial psychiatry.

As the Algerian War of Ind ependence erupts, Fanon’s psychiatric ward becomes a battleground for the minds of both colonized and colonizer. The film reveals how colonization i nfiltrated every aspect of life — from the clinic to the collective consci ousness — and how Fanon’s revolutionary ideas emerged in response.

Shot in the hospital that now bears Fanon’s name, director Abdenou r Zahzah blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary, co mbining professional actors with real doctors, nurses, and even Fanon’s so n, Olivier Fanon. The result is, in Zahzah’s words, “a representation of a living memory” — restoring Fanon’s presence in a place where medicine, po litics, and liberation once converged.

About the Director

Abdenour Zahzah is an Algerian screenwriter and filmmaker, and former director of the Blida Cinémathèque (1998–2003). His previous wo rks include Frantz Fanon, mémoire d’asile (2002) and the award-wi nning short Garagouz. With Decolonizing Minds (2024), Za hzah makes his feature fiction debut — a bold cinematic portrait of Fanon’ s transformative years in Algeria.

Post-Screening Talk

Khadija al Mourabit — Dutch philosopher, writer, and poet of A mazigh-Moroccan descent — will host a post-screening discussion. Her work explores identity, migration, and the psychological legacy of colonialism. She will reflect on Fanon’s ideas and the enduring impact of colo nization in North Africa today. with Amina Zidane an Algerian American biochemistrs

Amina Zidane - Born in Algiers Emigrated to Boston MASS, Graduate of Boston University and Brown I am a Biomedical Engineer and a Neuroscientist persuing a Phd.

Program

19:00 Doors open< br> 19:30 - 21:00 Film screening
21:00 - 21:3 0 Talk & discussion with Amina Zidane & Khadija al Mourab it
21:30 Drinks at the bar

More info about the film: CLICK HERE

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