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.

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

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...

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

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

In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The daily life and tribulations of colorful residents in the millennial popular district of the Casb...

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

El Kalaa, a village in southern Oran. Although already married, old Sidi planned to marry another. H...

“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our c...

Belkacem, a young unemployed man living in the Saharan village of Boulhilet, is entrusted by Bouacha...

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