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).

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

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

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

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

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

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

On March 29, 1947, peasants armed with sticks and knives attacked the French garrisons in Madagascar...

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

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

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

12-year-old Dyab is a Kurdish Yazidi boy living at Arbat refugee camp, after the horrendous attacks ...

"I often say sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defence. Basically, you use it to defend yo...

The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1...

On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic b...