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...

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during ...

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

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. H...

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

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

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble wido...

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

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

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

A childhood episode comes back to the memory of a man with no land

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...

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