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CONCERNING VIOLENCE: NINE SCENES FROM THE ANTI-IMPERIALISTIC SELF-DEFENSE

Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson

Louverture Films is a Co Producer

 

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

  • Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival 2016

  • Guldbagge Awards 2015 - Winner Best Documentary

  • IndieLisboa 2015

  • Gira de Documentales Ambulante 2015

  • Göteborg Film Festival 2015

  • Algiers International Film Festival 2014 - Winner Jury Prize

  • IDFA 2014

  • Cork International Film Festival 2014

  • CPH:DOX 2014

  • Leeds International Film Festival 2014

  • Vienna International Film Festival 2014

  • Oslo Films from the South Festival 2014 - Winner DOC: South Award

  • Vancouver International Film Festival 2014

  • Busan International Film Festival 2014

  • Nordisk Panorama 2014

  • Sarajevo Film Festival 2014

  • New Zealand International Film Festival 2014

  • BAM CinemaFest 2014

  • Sydney Film Festival 2014

  • Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest) 2014 - Nominee Viktor Award DOK.international

  • Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 - Nominee Special Jury Award

  • Hot Docs Film Festival 2014

  • Planete+ Doc Film Festival 2014

  • Hong Kong International Film Festival 2014 - Nominee Golden Firebird Award Documentary

  • Berlinale International Film Festival 2014 - Winner Cinema Fairbindet Prize Panorama

  • Göteburg International Film Festival 2014 - Nominee Dragon Award

  • Sundance Film Festival 2014 - Nominee Grand Jury Prize World Documentary Competition


Feature documentary based on newly discovered archival material connected with the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in Africa. Framed by Frantz Fanon’s landmark book "The Wretched of the Earth", the film offers a startlingly relevant and troubling perspective on colonization then and now.

Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialist Self-Defense is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.