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.

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...

Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the sec...

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

Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war ...

In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and ...

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mou...

On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic b...

Documentary on the French Alpine expedition to Hoggar in Algeria, starring Roger Frison-Roche, Raymo...

Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilit...

The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an A...

Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day,...

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbre...

Many of them participated in the struggle for Algerian independence. There are "those who believed i...

The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

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

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

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.