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.

This documentary by director Claire Billet and historian Christophe Lafaye details the massive and s...

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

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

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi ...

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

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...

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

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

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble wido...

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

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's in...

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

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

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.

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

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