Decolonizing Minds – The Blida-Joinville Chronicles (Fanon, 1953–56)

Decolonizing Minds is a film screening and discussion series at Ventilator Cinema exploring colonial history, resistance, and identity through Indigenous and diasporic cinema.

This forth edition of Decolonizing Minds— is the first feature film about Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary psychiatrist, writer, and anti-colonial thinker whose ideas reshaped our understanding of race, psychology, and liberation.

The film sheds light on the lasting consequences of colonization in North Africa, particularly in Algeria, where colonial oppression and violence have left deep marks on both society and the individual psyche.