On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, supporters in the metropolis of the action of the Algerian FLN independence activists. But after a few days, the situation was reversed and the trial transformed into a political arena, it was the government, the army, their policy, it was the entire Algerian war whose trial began. Accused, witnesses, lawyers, overflowing a stunned court, transformed the courtroom into a tribune of the opposition. The trial coincided with the publication of the "Manifesto of the 121" on the right to insubordination, signed among others by Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Adamov, Simone de Beauvoir, André Breton, Marguerite Duras, Pierre Boulez, René Dumont, François Chatelet…

Habiba Djahnine went to meet activists who continue to take action. To meet them, to capture them in...

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...
Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborho...

The former French colonies in Central and West Africa have been independent since 1960, but most of ...

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini traveled to the Atakor massif, in the Hoggar m...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

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

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

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the...

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...

The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to docu...

In this film, four key witnesses, who live in Algeria today, as full-fledged Agerians, show us what ...

Roberto Muniz, nicknamed "Mahmoud the Argentinian," was a revolutionary fighter who joined the Natio...