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...

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

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

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

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...

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

“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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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