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.
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hu...
After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he i...
Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France.
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, A...
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...
“Les Fusils De La Liberté” (1961) is a docu-fiction which recounts the difficulties overcome by an A...
The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member o...
In 1960, nine-year-old Bachir dreamed of becoming the son of a martyr because he had heard that the ...
The city of Lambèse is the scene of torture, both physical and moral, for the resistance fighters of...
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 ...
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...
The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colon...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...