On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830, hastened to reinforce its military contingent in the four corners of the country and to prevent the advance of the rebels. A little Chaoui, born in a mountainous region of the country, sees his placid childhood collapse in the middle of a crossfire that he does not understand. The story, inspired by real testimonies, is constructed with images from the archives of the French army. From this apparently dissociated dialogue between image and word arises a sensitive homage to the memory that rests in the archives and to the ignored voice of its protagonists.

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...

In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS, arrived f...

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

The former French colonies in Central and West Africa have been independent since 1960, but most of ...

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring inter...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

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

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...

In 1973, 6 guides from the National Ski and Mountaineering School (ENSA), including Charles Daubas a...

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of t...

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...

Five young Italian climbers, Paolo Grunanger, Lorenzo Marimonti, Pietro Meciani, Lodovico Gaetani an...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

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

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi ...