In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.

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

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During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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

Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants h...

Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela'...

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Holly...

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A gang of smugglers headed by an oil dealer are brought to justice by a lawman.

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