Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre Clément is considered one of the founders of Algerian cinema. In this film he shows images of Algerian refugee camps in Tunisia and their living conditions. A restored DVD version released in 2016, from the 35 mm original donated by Pierre Clément to the Contemporary International Documentation Library (BDIC).
Takes place in the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria against the historical backdrop of Spanish colo...

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

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Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...

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More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966...

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Immigrated to the Paris region since 1964, Kader decides to spend the summer holidays with his famil...

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...