Concerning Violence (FSK 12+)

A retrospective on African liberation movements and their violent confrontations with colonial powers. The filmmaker combines archival footage with texts by Frantz Fanon.

Concerning Violence deals with the uprisings that sought to bring about the decolonization of Africa, offering a look back at key liberation struggles. The film focuses on archival material recorded by Swedish documentary filmmakers and television journalists between 1966 and 1984. Footage of the liberation movement in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique, and the independence struggle in Guinea-Bissau is juxtaposed with documentary images of Swedish missionaries in Tanzania and a strike in a Swedish-owned mine in Liberia. These images are closely interwoven with texts from Frantz Fanon’s groundbreaking book The Wretched of the Earth, which forms the basis of the documentary. The texts are narrated by musician Lauryn Hill. In the film’s prologue, renowned scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak introduces Fanon’s work and expands it with a gender perspective.

Screen play by Göran Hugo Olsson

Produced by Tobias Janson, Annika Rogell