On November 1, 1954, near Ghassira, a small village lost in the Aurès, a couple of French teachers and an Algerian boss were the first civilian victims of a seven-year war which would lead to the independence of Algeria. More than fifty years later, Malek Bensmaïl returns to this Chaoui village, which has become “the cradle of the Algerian revolution”, to film, throughout the seasons, its inhabitants, its school and its children.

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

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

Algeria. Benjamin, Kateb and Antoine are three teenagers from three religious backgrounds who never ...

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

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

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on the...

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

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

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...