A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day.

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

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

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

Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...

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

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

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

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. H...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders o...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth w...

It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the ...

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...