A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema annex library. Mr. Rachid, disappointed and exasperated by his sad life, faced with an inspector who questions him, tries to explain: why did he kill his former department head after a long night of wandering?

Les Plongeurs Du Désert, directed by Tahar Hannache in 1952, is considered the first entirely Algeri...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is se...

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah dis...

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

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

A woman has a close bond with her beloved Algeriann grandfather, who protected her from a toxic home...

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...

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

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

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

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

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble wido...

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

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

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

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

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

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...