A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society, one that still clings to tribal mores and strict religious codes of conduct.

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to strug...

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s re...

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horr...

The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill....

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

When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...

In the midst of the Algerian war for independence, a group of fighters is trapped in the mountains, ...

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...

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...

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

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of...