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.

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...

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

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

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders o...

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

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

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

Immigrated to the Paris region since 1964, Kader decides to spend the summer holidays with his famil...

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

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

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. ...