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”.

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

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

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.

In the midst of the Algerian war for independence, a group of fighters is trapped in the mountains, ...

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

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...

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...

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is se...

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Y...

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...

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

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth w...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

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

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