In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
On an Algerian beach, kids splash about, sleep, squabble - and then suddenly go to war. And it’s nei...
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...
Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at ...
Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial...
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son...
Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war ...
In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and ...
Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France.
A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return hom...
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the isl...
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their Ger...
1516, Legend has it that the king of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbar...
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colon...
In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, A...
A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Holly...
Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Weste...