This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend and a recent immigrant, want him to return to France permanently. Friction develops between the two friends as Georges is pressured to sell his factory. Friendship developed between Georges and his surgeon, who as a French Arab has severed ties with his culture and country of origin.

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...

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...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...

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

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

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

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor wr...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mou...

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

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

Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day,...

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbre...

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

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

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

Mounya doesn't like the desert, and she doesn't like Majid either, but she agreed to go with him for...