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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation cen...

“In Algeria, we are restoring order, what we mean by French order,” declared Michel Debré, Prime Min...

"Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian Wa...

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

"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic...

The SAS (Section Administrative Spécialisée) were created in 1956 by the French army during the Alge...

Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in ...