In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on the community of Algerians in France are numerous. The Galti family is prey to these economic problems. The father, Khaled, former member of the F.L.N. in France, does not escape the sentence. Sharazade, his wife and comrade in combat, finds herself torn between her role as wife, mother and nostalgia for a country and a bygone past. As for his son Karim, a victim of socio-cultural division, all he has left is refusal.

Aïcha, a 7-year-old black girl receives a drawing mocking her hair. With the help of her big sister,...

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of p...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

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

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominic...

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district a...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white worl...

Lucky, an undocumented immigrant, struggles to make his way in New York but finds himself caught in ...

A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmon...

Allison Westlin, a Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer and single mother, investigates a murder wit...

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

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of mo...

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

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

The start of the Yugoslav civil war forces freshly graduated Mina to choose between being an obedien...