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

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

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

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...

Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war ...

In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and ...

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

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

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...

Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embas...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occup...

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

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

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, h...

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

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

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.