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...

A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier...

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

By meeting his former comrades in combat, the film follows the journey of Yves Mathieu, anti-colonia...

Part of Zineb Sedira's art installation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. A piece...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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