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).

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

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...

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

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's in...

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...

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political a...

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

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

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

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

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

An estimated 12 million people live in refugee camps worldwide and only 0.1% are resettled, repatria...