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.
"Film shot on the 'bench' from hundreds of photos, buildings, streets, towns unusually colorful for ...
Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial...
Who was Frantz Fanon, the author of Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks, this Pan-Afri...
Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...
The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member o...
In 1960, nine-year-old Bachir dreamed of becoming the son of a martyr because he had heard that the ...
The Director Mohammed Soudani comes back to Algeria after 30 years with the photographer Michael von...
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...
Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...
Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held ...
An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.
"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...
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...
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter...
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
In an age when women were incapable of joining the artistic dialogue, Lilias Trotter managed to win ...
The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulatio...
In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...