Film Series | Our Forgotten Liberators. (De-)colonial perspectives on the Second World War

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Nazi Germany, the iz3w and the Kommunales Kino Freiburg, in cooperation with the Centre Culturel Français and other partners, want to commemorate both its victims and the resistance fighters from the Global South through lectures and a film series with guests from Algeria, France, Italy, Brazil, Korea and the USA!

The aim of this series of events is to contribute to a change of perspective from a Eurocentric to a global historiography. Europe, and Germany in particular, must face up to the historical responsibility it has towards continents, countries and regions that have been shattered by colonization and war.

Film on May 13: Les massacres de Sétif, un certain 8. May 1945 - France 2003, Mehdi Lallaoui & Bernard Langlois

Algerian director Mehdi Lallaoui will be presenting two of his films in Fribourg in May 2025. LES MASSACRES DE SÉTIF, UN CERTAIN 8. MAY 1945 documents why the day the war ended in Europe is still considered a day of mourning in Algeria today. On this day, French settlers in the Algerian city of Sétif shot at demonstrators who were demanding the liberation of their country from colonial rule after the liberation of Europe. The result was a revolt in the Algerian coastal region, which was brutally massacred by French troops and foreign legionnaires.

> guest: filmmaker Mehdi Lallaoui

Film on May 14: Sur les traces de Frantz Fanon - Algeria, France 2021, Mehdi Lallaoui

"As a doctor, he knew human suffering. As a psychiatrist, he analyzed the causes of trauma, and as a colonized person, he understood better than anyone what it meant to grow up under colonial conditions." Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins with these words by Aimé Césaire and historical footage of Frantz Fanon's funeral in 1961. In it, companions of the liberation fighter and theorist Fanon have their say, such as his assistant Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, his biographer and comrade-in-arms in the revolutionization of psychiatry in North Africa Alice Cherki and the historian Jean Khalfa.

> guest: filmmaker Mehdi Lallaoui & contemporary witness Alice Cherki

Communal Cinema
Tuesday, May 13 & Wednesday, May 14 | 7.30 pm
Language: F/D
An event by iz3w and Kommunales Kino Freiburg in cooperation with:Centre Culturel Français Freiburg, ACT - Africa Center for Transregional Research, Blaues Haus Breisach, De/Coloniality Now, DEAB, FAIRburg, Frankreich-Zentrum,freiburg-postkolonial, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, KoBra - Cooperation Brazil, Kulturaggregat, recherche international, Theater Freiburg, Weingut Dilger

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Nazi Germany, the iz3w and the Kommunales Kino Freiburg, in cooperation with the Centre Culturel Français and other partners, want to commemorate both its victims and the resistance fighters from the Global South through lectures and a film series with guests from Algeria, France, Italy, Brazil, Korea and the USA!

The aim of this series of events is to contribute to a change of perspective from a Eurocentric to a global historiography. Europe, and Germany in particular, must face up to the historical responsibility it has towards continents, countries and regions that have been shattered by colonization and war.

Film on May 13: Les massacres de Sétif, un certain 8. May 1945 - France 2003, Mehdi Lallaoui & Bernard Langlois

Algerian director Mehdi Lallaoui will be presenting two of his films in Fribourg in May 2025. LES MASSACRES DE SÉTIF, UN CERTAIN 8. MAY 1945 documents why the day the war ended in Europe is still considered a day of mourning in Algeria today. On this day, French settlers in the Algerian city of Sétif shot at demonstrators who were demanding the liberation of their country from colonial rule after the liberation of Europe. The result was a revolt in the Algerian coastal region, which was brutally massacred by French troops and foreign legionnaires.

> guest: filmmaker Mehdi Lallaoui

Film on May 14: Sur les traces de Frantz Fanon - Algeria, France 2021, Mehdi Lallaoui

"As a doctor, he knew human suffering. As a psychiatrist, he analyzed the causes of trauma, and as a colonized person, he understood better than anyone what it meant to grow up under colonial conditions." Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins with these words by Aimé Césaire and historical footage of Frantz Fanon's funeral in 1961. In it, companions of the liberation fighter and theorist Fanon have their say, such as his assistant Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, his biographer and comrade-in-arms in the revolutionization of psychiatry in North Africa Alice Cherki and the historian Jean Khalfa.

> guest: filmmaker Mehdi Lallaoui & contemporary witness Alice Cherki

Communal Cinema
Tuesday, May 13 & Wednesday, May 14 | 7.30 pm
Language: F/D
An event by iz3w and Kommunales Kino Freiburg in cooperation with:Centre Culturel Français Freiburg, ACT - Africa Center for Transregional Research, Blaues Haus Breisach, De/Coloniality Now, DEAB, FAIRburg, Frankreich-Zentrum,freiburg-postkolonial, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, KoBra - Cooperation Brazil, Kulturaggregat, recherche international, Theater Freiburg, Weingut Dilger

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Nazi Germany, the iz3w and the Kommunales Kino Freiburg, in cooperation with the Centre Culturel Français and other partners, want to commemorate both its victims and the resistance fighters from the Global South through lectures and a film series with guests from Algeria, France, Italy, Brazil, Korea and the USA!

The aim of this series of events is to contribute to a change of perspective from a Eurocentric to a global historiography. Europe, and Germany in particular, must face up to the historical responsibility it has towards continents, countries and regions that have been shattered by colonization and war.

Film on May 13: Les massacres de Sétif, un certain 8. May 1945 - France 2003, Mehdi Lallaoui & Bernard Langlois

Algerian director Mehdi Lallaoui will be presenting two of his films in Fribourg in May 2025. LES MASSACRES DE SÉTIF, UN CERTAIN 8. MAY 1945 documents why the day the war ended in Europe is still considered a day of mourning in Algeria today. On this day, French settlers in the Algerian city of Sétif shot at demonstrators who were demanding the liberation of their country from colonial rule after the liberation of Europe. The result was a revolt in the Algerian coastal region, which was brutally massacred by French troops and foreign legionnaires.

> guest: filmmaker Mehdi Lallaoui

Film on May 14: Sur les traces de Frantz Fanon - Algeria, France 2021, Mehdi Lallaoui

"As a doctor, he knew human suffering. As a psychiatrist, he analyzed the causes of trauma, and as a colonized person, he understood better than anyone what it meant to grow up under colonial conditions." Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins with these words by Aimé Césaire and historical footage of Frantz Fanon's funeral in 1961. In it, companions of the liberation fighter and theorist Fanon have their say, such as his assistant Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, his biographer and comrade-in-arms in the revolutionization of psychiatry in North Africa Alice Cherki and the historian Jean Khalfa.

> guest: filmmaker Mehdi Lallaoui & contemporary witness Alice Cherki

Communal Cinema
Tuesday, May 13 & Wednesday, May 14 | 7.30 pm
Language: F/D
An event by iz3w and Kommunales Kino Freiburg in cooperation with:Centre Culturel Français Freiburg, ACT - Africa Center for Transregional Research, Blaues Haus Breisach, De/Coloniality Now, DEAB, FAIRburg, Frankreich-Zentrum,freiburg-postkolonial, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, KoBra - Cooperation Brazil, Kulturaggregat, recherche international, Theater Freiburg, Weingut Dilger

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Nazi Germany, the iz3w and the Kommunales Kino Freiburg, in cooperation with the Centre Culturel Français and other partners, want to commemorate both its victims and the resistance fighters from the Global South through lectures and a film series with guests from Algeria, France, Italy, Brazil, Korea and the USA!

The aim of this series of events is to contribute to a change of perspective from a Eurocentric to a global historiography. Europe, and Germany in particular, must face up to the historical responsibility it has towards continents, countries and regions that have been shattered by colonization and war.

Film on May 13: Les massacres de Sétif, un certain 8. May 1945 - France 2003, Mehdi Lallaoui & Bernard Langlois

Algerian director Mehdi Lallaoui will be presenting two of his films in Fribourg in May 2025. LES MASSACRES DE SÉTIF, UN CERTAIN 8. MAY 1945 documents why the day the war ended in Europe is still considered a day of mourning in Algeria today. On this day, French settlers in the Algerian city of Sétif shot at demonstrators who were demanding the liberation of their country from colonial rule after the liberation of Europe. The result was a revolt in the Algerian coastal region, which was brutally massacred by French troops and foreign legionnaires.

> guest: filmmaker Mehdi Lallaoui

Film on May 14: Sur les traces de Frantz Fanon - Algeria, France 2021, Mehdi Lallaoui

"As a doctor, he knew human suffering. As a psychiatrist, he analyzed the causes of trauma, and as a colonized person, he understood better than anyone what it meant to grow up under colonial conditions." Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins with these words by Aimé Césaire and historical footage of Frantz Fanon's funeral in 1961. In it, companions of the liberation fighter and theorist Fanon have their say, such as his assistant Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, his biographer and comrade-in-arms in the revolutionization of psychiatry in North Africa Alice Cherki and the historian Jean Khalfa.

> guest: filmmaker Mehdi Lallaoui & contemporary witness Alice Cherki

Communal Cinema
Tuesday, May 13 & Wednesday, May 14 | 7.30 pm
Language: F/D
An event by iz3w and Kommunales Kino Freiburg in cooperation with:Centre Culturel Français Freiburg, ACT - Africa Center for Transregional Research, Blaues Haus Breisach, De/Coloniality Now, DEAB, FAIRburg, Frankreich-Zentrum,freiburg-postkolonial, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, KoBra - Cooperation Brazil, Kulturaggregat, recherche international, Theater Freiburg, Weingut Dilger