The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an Algerian family expropriated from its land and a bloodthirsty settler; by director Ahmed Rachedi. Adapted from the eponymous novel by Mohamed Maarafia, the film, whose plot begins in 1954, tells the story of two characters, Thebti and Lucien, “the fellaga and the colonist”, a story of crossed destinies. “After having engaged in a fight to the death, after having both traveled a long path of embers, (they) finally find themselves face to face and above all each face to themselves”.

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defen...

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

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

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...

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

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, h...

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Holly...

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the le...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

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

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

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

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

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...