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.

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

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...

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

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants h...

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. H...

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

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

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...

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

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

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders o...

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...

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

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

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

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