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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah dis...

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth w...

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

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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

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

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

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

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

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

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