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.

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

In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS, arrived f...

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

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966...

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

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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