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.
In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785, two American boats were return...
"Film shot on the 'bench' from hundreds of photos, buildings, streets, towns unusually colorful for ...
Who was Frantz Fanon, the author of Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks, this Pan-Afri...
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came ver...
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
In an age when women were incapable of joining the artistic dialogue, Lilias Trotter managed to win ...
The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival sho...
In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...
A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and p...
"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi ...
By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...
It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of...
The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulatio...
Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...
The Director Mohammed Soudani comes back to Algeria after 30 years with the photographer Michael von...
X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...
He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...
A city made of cinema. A cinema that imagines the city of Christmas.