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.

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

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

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...

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

“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...

Les Plongeurs Du Désert, directed by Tahar Hannache in 1952, is considered the first entirely Algeri...

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

An Algerian music composer and his friends live a thrilling story, full of twists and turns.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, A...