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Frantz Fanon is a renowned politician and decolonialisation activist. This feature focuses on his visionary social therapy methods during his time as a psychiatrist in Algeria from 1953 to 1956. A piece of sober anti-racism.

Filmfestspiele von Cannes, 1975, Chronik der brennenden Jahre von Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina erhält die Goldene Palme. Premiere für einen afrikanischen Film. Als akribische Chronik der Entwicklung der algerischen Nationalbewegung von 1939 bis zum Ausbruch der Revolution am 1. November 1954 zeigt der Film unmissverständlich, dass der „Algerienkrieg“ kein Zufall der Geschichte, sondern ein langsamer Prozess von Aufständen und Leid ist, ohne Unterbrechung, vom Beginn der Kolonialisierung im Jahr 1830 bis zu diesem „Roten Allerheiligen“ am 1. November 54. In sechs Kapiteln zeichnet der Film ein schonungsloses Bild der politischen und militärischen Geschichte des kolonialen Algeriens. Im Zentrum erwacht Ahmed allmählich zu einem politischen Bewusstsein gegen die Kolonialisierung, unter dem Blick seines Sohnes, Symbol des neuen Algeriens, und dem von Miloud, halb verrücktem Redner, halb Prophet, Inkarnation der populären Erinnerung an den Aufstand Befreiung Algeriens und seines Volkes.

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.

January 1, 2001

The largest country in the Arab world and a producer of hydrocarbons, Algeria has everything it needs to weigh on the international scene. But Africa's second military power seems undermined by its internal problems. While the Bouteflika regime has fallen and the popular “hirak” movement has shown that the people are ready to enter a more democratic era, the country appears as a colossus with feet of clay, which has failed enhance their independence. How did this isolation come about? From the “dark decade” of terrorism to the fall of Bouteflika, via 9/11 or the Arab revolutions, this documentary sheds light on Algerian foreign policy in recent decades, while deciphering the strategy of Western powers towards it.

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