NATIONAL THEATRICAL RELEASE – FRANTZ FANON

Abdenour Zahzah’s FRANTZ FANON, closing film of the 2024 edition of Cinéma du réel, opens in cinemas in France on Wednesday July 23, 2025.

French Algeria, 1953. At the Blida-Joinville hospital, Frantz Fanon, a young black psychiatrist, is trying to cure Algerians of their alienations when war breaks out in his department. Shot entirely on location at the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital that Frantz Fanon ran as the Algerian war was breaking out, Abdenour Zahzah’s film sheds light on the genesis of the anti-colonial commitment of the author of Peaux noires, masques blancs.

Production: Atlas Film Production, Shellac

Distribution: Shellac

Trailer: https://youtu.be/kTjU9FQZLPM