DR. FRANZ FANON at Inscience Film Festival

Black Soil partners with InScience for a special screening and talk. InScience is one of Europe’s leading science film festivals, bringing together filmmakers, scientists, and audiences to explore ideas that shape our world.

Dr Franz Fanon brings the life and work of Franz Fanon to the screen, the influential anti-colonial thinker, psychiatrist, and revolutionary whose ideas continue to resonate today.

In 1953, Algeria was colonized. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist, is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algiers School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.

The screening is introduced by Eva Webster, who reflects on Fanon’s early intellectual development in Martinique, his move to Algeria, and the enduring relevance of his ideas on alienation, domination, and resistance.

Eva Webster is a Political Science student at the University of Amsterdam with Caribbean roots in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Dominica. Her work centers on history, inequality, and creating spaces for collective dialogue and belonging.