This curated film program is anchored in Martinican psychiatrist and anti-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon’s often-misunderstood and overly read essay Concerning Violence from his 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth. For this season, we have curated films that engage with Fanon’s work in the spirit he intended - not as an endorsement of violent action, but as a confrontation of the processes that drive the colonised to employ violence. This season includes seminal films such as The Battle of Algiers, one of cinema’s great political masterpieces, which charts the Algerian national liberation movement from its beginnings in 1954 through to independence in 1962. Also featured is Embrace of the Serpent, a visually stunning work filmed on 35mm in the Amazon, set against the violent backdrop of the colonial rubber trade. Dulce Fernandes' film essay Tales of Oblivion by offers a meditative reflection on the physical and cultural remnants of colonial atrocities in our present landscapes  - a 15th-century turned car park and minigolf course, museum artifacts - capturing the haunting echoes of the horrific trade in human beings.

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Thursday, 30 January Two Laws (1982) 2h 10m

Thursday, 6 February Embrace of the Seprent (2015) 2h 5m

Thursday, 13 February 2025 Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali (1982) 25m and Born in Flames (1983) 1h 30m

Thursday, 20 February 2025 Human Being (إنسان / Insan) (1994) 27m and Talking About Trees (2019) 1h 30m

Thursday, 27 February 2025 Fantastic Planet (1973) 1h 12m and Contos do Esquecimento / Tales of Oblivion (2023) 1h 2m

Thursday, 6 March 2025The Battle of Algiers (1966) 2h 1m