Film Screenings: Pan-African Legacies – Malcolm X and Franz Fanon

Saturday, January 17, 2026 @ 3:30pm
Teachers College - Columbia Art and Art Education, Department of Arts & Humanities, New York
Presented by African Diaspora International Film Festival

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MX STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

This foundational 1967 documentary, directed by Jamaican poet and filmmaker Lebert Bethune, captures civil rights leader Malcolm X during the final and most pivotal phase of his political evolution.

Featuring rare and intimate interviews filmed during Malcolm X’s travels through Europe and Africa shortly before his assassination, the film interweaves his developing vision of Pan-Africanism and global solidarity with vivid scenes of African anti-colonial rebellions.

An essential historical document, it reveals Malcolm X’s shift from domestic civil rights to a broader international struggle against colonialism, underscoring the deep ideological connections between the African American movement and the global African Diaspora.

Followed by Q&A

FRANTZ FANON: HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, HIS STRUGGLES

Screened with Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work

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This foundational 1967 documentary, directed by Jamaican poet and filmmaker Lebert Bethune, captures civil rights leader Malcolm X during the final and most pivotal phase of his political evolution.

Featuring rare and intimate interviews filmed during Malcolm X’s travels through Europe and Africa shortly before his assassination, the film interweaves his developing vision of Pan-Africanism and global solidarity with vivid scenes of African anti-colonial rebellions.

An essential historical document, it reveals Malcolm X’s shift from domestic civil rights to a broader international struggle against colonialism, underscoring the deep ideological connections between the African American movement and the global African Diaspora.

Followed by Q&A

FANON

This powerful biographical drama, Fanon, from director Jean-Claude Barny (of Guadeloupean and Trinidadian origin), focuses on the transformative years of Martiniquan psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon in 1950s Algeria.

Newly appointed to the Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, Fanon (Alexandre Bouyer) witnesses systemic injustice, as the institutional violence inflicted on Algerian patients mirrors the brutal colonial oppression outside the hospital walls.

The film dramatizes Fanon’s radicalization as his humanistic compassion shifts into political action, leading him to support the Algerian independence movement (the FLN) while writing his seminal work, The Wretched of the Earth.



Fanon is a compelling and timely cinematic examination of decolonization, identity, and the profound, enduring mental and political wounds inflicted by the colonial project.

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Schedule & Tickets

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