Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.

More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...

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

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

Born to an Algerian father and a Sicilian mother in Tunisia, I have always been wealthy of three cul...

1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Jo...

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and ...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights acti...

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

The climbing couple Heinz Mariacher and Luisa Iovane abandon their usual winter training spot to go ...

The award-winning filmmaker Peter Lilienthal is dedicated to this extremely poignant documentary of ...

In 1950, the explorer Roger Frison-Roche made a crossing of more than a thousand kilometers on the b...

Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century. Pekurinen s...

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...