Concerning Violence

Berlin 2014
Panorama
Sundance 2014
Official Selection

Concerning Violence

A Film by Göran Hugo Olsson

2014 - Sweden - Documentary - DCP 1.77 - 85 min.

Language: English
Produced by Annika Rogell & Tobias Janson

Decolonization is a long process. The African liberation is still undergoing. Concerning Violence is covering the most daring moments in the struggle for freedom in the African colonies based on newly discovered, powerful archive material & accompanied by classic text from "The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon.

Berlin 2014
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Sundance 2014
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