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...

In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family ...

Director Scott Haze chronicles the remarkable life of Charles Mully. A man revered as "Father to the...

Nasa, a successful 31-year-old, faces a life-altering challenge when her doctor advises conceiving s...

Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his...

Lieutenant Varnière, responsible for discovering the cause of the death of two officers in Algeria, ...

Rayan, a young French boxer of Algerian origin, loses his mother. As tradition dictates, he must acc...

Entrusted by his father to a group of gold-miners, an albino child embodies all of their hopes.

A young woman preparing for her marriage desperately and courageously journeys to erase her past.

An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He take...

In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita....

Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a...

In Namibia, a country where sodomy is still a crime and gay relationships are stigmatized against, t...

Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial...

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

1516, Legend has it that the king of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbar...

Longtime friends, Mehdi and Hamid, work for a collection agency. They crisscross the villages of sou...
Freedom, Nigeria's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, was based on a play commissioned b...

In the 1970s, groups of young Europeans ventured into the Sahara Desert with the intention of crossi...

The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives wi...

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from ...