“Forgetting is complicit in recidivism,” says the commentary of this film dedicated to the demonstration of October 17, 1961 in Paris and the savage repression that followed. 11,538 Algerians will be arrested, which is reminiscent of the great Vel d’hiv roundup of July 16 and 17, 1942 where 12,884 Jews were arrested. The film brings together eyewitnesses including a priest, a peacekeeper, a couple of workers sympathetic to the Algerian cause, a lawyer, Paris municipal councilors including Claude Bourdet (then one of the leaders of the PSU and journalist to France Observateur), Gérard Monatte, the future police union leader, and the editor and writer François Maspero.

Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daugh...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...
A young immigrant arrives in Canada from France, and brings his Citroën 2CV with him. The iconic pos...

Artistic director of the National Theater Eric de Vroedt writes and directs a performance about his ...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...
Documentary that shows the changing attitude towards immigrant labor in The Netherlands. The documen...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the...

A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland...
The pupils of about fifteen secondary schools in the suburbs of Paris react to the projection of two...

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...

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

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...

A key overview of twentieth-century American fascism and antifascism produced in 1991 by the John Br...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...