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”.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follow...

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...

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

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

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

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

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...

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

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

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...

Jesús María Carmona is a small-time crook who poses as a cop so he can rob a bank. A few days before...