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  (Abdenour Zahzah, Algeria/France 2024, 90 min., Arabic and French with English subtitles)

In 1953, Frantz Fanon accepted a senior clinical position at a psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. The hospital and its treatments reproduced the discrimination, poverty, and violent racism commonplace in colonial Algeria at that time. Encouraged by his experiences working with radical psychiatrists like Francesc Tosquelles at St-Alban, Fanon set about emancipating or 'disalienating' the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, while also become more active in his support for Algerian resistance to French colonial rule.  Using fiction and docu-drama techniques, the film develops directly on Zahzar's earlier documentary project on this subject, Frantz Fanon, mémoire d’asile (2002).