Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker’s father, who for years said nothing of his childhood in Algeria. And then, the need to break the silence, with a script that he gives to his children, to start telling his story. Several years later, the father and daughter finally make the journey to Mansourah, his native village: seeing his house, meeting other men who experienced the same heartbreak. Little by little, the film reveals what Malek, like many others, has long kept quiet about.

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...

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

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

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

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 ...

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter...

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

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

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

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

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

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

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

This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities com...

Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transport...