90 minutes | Algeria, France | French and Arabic with English subtitles.

True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 (2024) A film by Abdenour Zahzah, presented with U of T Community Engaged Learning Program (New College) and Centre for Caribbean Studies, Caribbean Solidarity Network, and TPFF

Set in French-ruled Algeria in the 1950s, before he was renowned as one of the most influential thinkers and contributors to postcolonial philosophy, Fanon was a trained psychiatrist. In his recently appointed position as head physician at True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 (2024) the Blida-Joinville Hospital, a young Fanon witnesses the racist and Islamaphobic cruelty the hospital’s patients endured. Filmed in the same hospital where Fanon once worked, the film explores this short but impactful chapter of his life using archival records and Fanon’s hospital diaries.

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