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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...