The autobiographical account of the tormented life of a witness of the century: Louisa Ighilahriz, activist and leading figure in Algerian independence. A student, she joined the independence struggle at the age of 20, joining the ranks of the FLN on the eve of the Battle of Algiers in late 1956 under the name Lila. She took part in the high school students' strike, then fled into the maquis when she was actively sought after. She was part of the French FLN support network of "suitcase carriers" during the Battle of Algiers. Seriously wounded alongside her network leader, Saïd Bakel, during an ambush in 1957, hospitalized and then imprisoned, she suffered numerous tortures in French prisons. She will be saved from certain death by an anonymous person, she will seek, for forty years, to find him just to show him her gratitude... Emblematic of the painful Franco-Algerian history, Louisa's story is poignant and imbued with humanism.

Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at...

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Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relativel...

Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her stru...

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

Roberto Muniz, nicknamed "Mahmoud the Argentinian," was a revolutionary fighter who joined the Natio...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

An urgent and powerful documentary, shot in a detention centre where asylum seekers trying to reach ...

The challenges of the present, expectations for the future, and the dreams of those who experience t...

Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural R...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's in...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algie...

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

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Born to an Algerian father and a Sicilian mother in Tunisia, I have always been wealthy of three cul...

For more than forty years, Belela Herrera has dedicated her life to saving that of others. The polit...

Pauline, Norah, Kristina and others wait for hours, sitting under a hut deep in the Bois de Vincenne...

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In October 1995, Forbach witnessed one of the most violent strikes in the history of contemporary Fr...