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...

Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants h...

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfrien...

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. I...

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. H...

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despi...

PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only fri...

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble wido...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...
Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets ...

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the d...

A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.

Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that bri...

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that...

A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the Firs...

A city with its problems. A gang of abandoned children provide for themselves and pose as heroes. Th...