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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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