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”.

The end of World War II brings Europe a new political system, reshapes national and personal identit...

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

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

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic ...

A group of guerrillas fighting against Japanese invaders.

While being imprisoned on a remote island for leading a naval-yard workers' strike, a man reminisces...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah dis...