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.

Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the sec...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In 1963, Rosans, a village in the Hautes-Alpes region depopulated by the rural exodus, welcomed Hark...

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

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

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

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...

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

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