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.

“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...

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's in...

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

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political a...

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

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

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

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

Immigrated to the Paris region since 1964, Kader decides to spend the summer holidays with his famil...

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...

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

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

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...

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

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

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

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...