Fanon
- IMDb link: 28545881
- IMDb rating: 6.3 (348 votes)
- Genres: Biography
- Director: Deborah Francois, Jean-Claude Flamand-Barny, Mehdi Senoussi
- Cast: Stanislas Merhar, Alexandre Bouyer and others
- Release date: 2 Apr 2025
- Release year: 2024
- Runtime: 132 minutes
- Country: France, Luxembourg, Canada, Belgium
- Keywords: male frontal nudity, male rear nudity, male nudity, male full frontal nudity, pubic hair, bare chested male, male pubic hair, psychiatric hospital, psychiatrist, colonization
Plot:
Frantz Fanon has just been appointed chef medical officer at the psychiatric hospital of Blida, in Algeria. Very soon, the innovative methods and the humanistic treatment he gives to Algerian patients attracts him the wrath of his colleagues and the director of the institution. However Frantz Fanon is not a man who lets be stepped on. His determination and his ideas generates interest of FLN and his leader Abane Ramdane, who offers to join the cause. In a context where tensions between the French army and FLN are becoming increasingly evident, Frantz Fanon sounds like a traitor. With his wife Josie, they are caught in a vortex of violence which lead them to take up the cause for the Independence of Algeria.