1516, Legend has it that the king of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to liberate the city from the Spaniards, he is determined to conquer Zaphira as well as the kingdom itself. But is Zaphira willing to let him, or is she plotting for herself?

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Holly...

Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...

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

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

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

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...

In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, bu...

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders o...

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini traveled to the Atakor massif, in the Hoggar m...

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Alg...

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

The Algerian Sahara is the most exceptional deserts. He densifies everything he hosts, men and natur...

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is se...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

A woman has a close bond with her beloved Algeriann grandfather, who protected her from a toxic home...