In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and a guerrab (water distributor), having become aware of their subhuman condition in their own country, join the National Liberation Army (ALN) to fight against inhumane colonialism. They will climb the ranks to become political commissioners before falling on the field of honor, the first in a skirmish and the other in Barberousse prison (Serkadji) where he will be guillotined.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...

Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A yo...

‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport ...

As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges f...

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...

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

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...

In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, bu...

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble wido...

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Holly...

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

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

A woman has a close bond with her beloved Algeriann grandfather, who protected her from a toxic home...

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is se...