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.

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

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

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

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

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

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Holly...

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A yo...

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

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

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

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...

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

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

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

It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the ...

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

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...