Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation he shares with his parents, brothers and sisters... he occupies the kitchen, the refuge of his dreams and his many fantasies. Selim, the court clerk where divorcing couples parade..., wants to get married. His mother finds him “the rare pearl”. But now, the bride's family demands that the couple have their own home... Selim's misadventure begins; he finds himself confronted with the problems of the housing crisis which forces him to begin a long quest, procedures, requests to find the sine qua non condition for his marriage.

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s re...

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horr...

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

After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds ...

In the midst of the Algerian war for independence, a group of fighters is trapped in the mountains, ...

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough m...

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

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...

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

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

Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war ...

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...

1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Jo...

Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised a...

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

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

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