Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war of independence in Algeria from 1854 to 1962, and the systematic use of torture which pushes even the most hesitant to make up their minds.
“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...
"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...
“Les Fusils De La Liberté” (1961) is a docu-fiction which recounts the difficulties overcome by an A...
The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member o...
In 1960, nine-year-old Bachir dreamed of becoming the son of a martyr because he had heard that the ...
The city of Lambèse is the scene of torture, both physical and moral, for the resistance fighters of...
On November 1, 1954, near Ghassira, a small village lost in the Aurès, a couple of French teachers a...
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and ...
A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return hom...
Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied eve...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son...
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...
Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...
At a dangerous time in Algeria, 'Douar de Femmes' is a story of ordinary women who manage to defend ...