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.
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hu...
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the d...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...
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...
Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...
A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horr...
In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family ...
After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he i...
“Les Fusils De La Liberté” (1961) is a docu-fiction which recounts the difficulties overcome by an A...
Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial...
An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...