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.
Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...
In 1964, Algeria, just two years after the end of the war of independence, found itself catapulted i...
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
“Les Fusils De La Liberté” (1961) is a docu-fiction which recounts the difficulties overcome by an A...
In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation cen...
Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...
On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic b...
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...
More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966...
This documentary by director Claire Billet and historian Christophe Lafaye details the massive and s...
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...
"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic...
This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities com...
Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transport...