Jacqueline Gozlan - who left Algeria with her parents in 1961 - nostalgically retraces the history of the Algiers Cinematheque, inseparable from that of the country's Independence, through film extracts and numerous testimonies; notably that of one of its creators, Jean-Michel Arnold, but also of filmmakers such as Merzak Allouache and critics such as Jean Douchet. A place of life for Algerians, the Cinémathèque was the hub of African cinemas. Created in 1965 by Ahmed Hocine, Mahieddine Moussaoui and Jean-Michel Arnold, the Cinémathèque benefited from the excitement of Independence. The Cinematheque becomes a meeting place for Algiers society, future filmmakers find their best school there. In 1969, the Algiers Pan-African Festival brought together all African filmmakers, and from 1970, Boudjemâa Kareche developed a collection of Arab and African films.

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

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...

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

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

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The Algerian Sahara is the most exceptional deserts. He densifies everything he hosts, men and natur...

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...
Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborho...

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

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

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

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

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

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...