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”.

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

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...

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

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

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

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 Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, bu...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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