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.

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

Roberto Muniz, nicknamed "Mahmoud the Argentinian," was a revolutionary fighter who joined the Natio...

Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses...

In this film, four key witnesses, who live in Algeria today, as full-fledged Agerians, show us what ...

Henia will give anything to mend her broken past and find her mother, from whom she has been separat...

In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.

In 1963, Rosans, a village in the Hautes-Alpes region depopulated by the rural exodus, welcomed Hark...
Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborho...

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

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

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

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...

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

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

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

The climbing couple Heinz Mariacher and Luisa Iovane abandon their usual winter training spot to go ...

Dubai - the city of controversies. Six individuals go through personal insecurities, cultural pressu...

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...