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.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges f...

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

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

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

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

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