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...

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Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

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The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the ...

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to t...

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...

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.

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

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

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...

In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on the...

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan gen...

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...