This film looks back at Algeria's past, covering its fight for independence and its subsequent fight against itself, being one of the few films to capture civil war Algeria and its inhabitants on camera. The filmmakers talk to politicians from both sides, past revolutionaries, and most importantly civilians, whose lives were torn apart by the conflict.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...

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

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

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

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