[English below]
Vem var Frantz Fanon och vad betyder han idag, hur ser hans efterföljare på vad som har hänt med världen under det halvsekel som gått sedan hans död?

Hassane Mezine har under flera års tid rest över tre kontinenter för att intervjua flera av de personer som arbetade nära honom. På så sätt återskapas Fanons liv och verk, från skolåren på Martinique via Frankrike, Sydafrika och Algeriet till hans tidiga död. Men filmen handlar lika mycket om de frön han sådde och fortsätter att så runt hela världen.

Franz Fanon, psykiatriker, filosof och författare, är en förgrundsgestalt i den postkoloniala teorin. Hans kolonialkritiska böcker "Svart hud, vita masker" (1952) och "Jordens fördömda" (1961) ses av många som grundläggande verk och inspirerar generationer av akademiker och aktivister.

Efter filmen följer ett samtal med regissören Hassan Mezine. Samtalet kommer att modereras av Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu från Afrosvenskarnas Forum för Rättvisa.

Hassan Mezine är filmfotograf och Fanon, yesterday, today är hans första dokumentära långfilm. Sedan 2018 har filmen visats på många filmfestivaler, biografer, universitet osv, och Mezine har rest runt i världen för att samtala kring sin film och Fanons arv.

Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu, är postkolonial feminist, Panafrikanist och doktorand på Globala Politiska Studier vid Malmö Universitet.

OBS! Samtalet kommer att ske på engelska.

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FANON, YESTERDAY, TODAY – FILM AND DISCUSSION
Who was Frantz Fanon and what is his legacy today? From yesterday to today, filmmaker Hassane Mezine turns his camera towards the women and men who knew and shared privileged moments with this intellectual, political philosopher, psychiatrist and anti-colonial freedom fighter. Although Fanon died in December 1961, his work continues to influence intellectuals and activists today. Those who have not met him in real life testify to his influence on their struggles for liberation and emancipation from neocolonialism.

After the film there will be a conversation between the director Hassan Mezine and Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu from Pan-African Movement for Justice (AFR). The audience will also have possibility to share thoughts and ask questions.

Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu is a postcolonial feminist, Pan-Africanist and a PhD candidate in Global Politics at Malmö University. She is also a board member of the Pan-African Movement for Justice.

About Fanon:
Frantz Fanon is considered one of the main thinkers on decolonization and the role of the third world. Born in Fort-the-France, Martinique in 1925, he studied medicine and psychiatry at the University of Lyon. In 1953–56 he served as head of the psychiatry department of Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria, which was then a French colony. He began working with the Algerian liberation movement, the National Liberation Front (FLN), and in 1956 became an editor of its newspaper, El Moudjahid.

His writings had a great impact in both academics and social movements. His most influential works being Black skin, White masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961).

About the director:
Hassan Mezine is a professional photographer born in 1972. After a brief transition at the AFP photo and France Soir, he became a freelance photographer. In 2004 he enriched his photography experience during the filming of "Algérie Tour detour" by Leila Morouche and Oriane Brun, with René Vautier, the indomptable anticolonial film-director. This experience will be a photographic turn. In 2016 he worked in Niger as Director of photography for the tv series "Delou" in Hausa language and 52 episodes. In 2015 he starts his first video-documentary on Frantz Fanon.