Maamar (Sid Ali Kouiret), a young fisherman working in a small port in western Algeria, is forced to sell his goods at a discount every day to Si Khelifa (Abdelhalim Rais), owner of many trucks and a cannery where the wives work fishermen. He has a strange encounter. As he returns from fishing, bassinet in hand, he witnesses a car accident. Indeed, a car hits a tree with a beautiful girl “Hayat” on board who has lost consciousness. Maamar pulls her out of the car and saves her. It is at this precise moment that he realizes the existence of another world. As if awakened from a long sleep, he realizes that this exploitation can no longer continue. He leaves his village and his wife Laâlia (Fatima Belhadj) on a whim for three years. He finds himself in the capital which he leaves to return to his village and carry out a saving action...
Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. H...
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...
In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, bu...
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remo...
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to strug...
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength whe...
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him ...
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...
In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...
An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her ...
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired wit...
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...
A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West Afr...
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...