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.
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hu...
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of...
By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...
Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...
“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...
Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held ...
Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...
“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...
Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...
A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horr...
In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family ...
After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he i...
In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785, two American boats were return...
"Film shot on the 'bench' from hundreds of photos, buildings, streets, towns unusually colorful for ...
Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...
“Les Fusils De La Liberté” (1961) is a docu-fiction which recounts the difficulties overcome by an A...
Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial...