Algeria Movies

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict...

Like every year in Zitouna, a bear handler passes by. With his creature, he comes to challenge the small community. And like every year, it is...

“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins;...

Two young Algerians born in France leave the Paris region to return with their parents to the village of their origins. They speak neither Arabic nor...

El Ouelf Essaïb (الولف صعيب) is a comedy written and directed by Mohamed Hilmi, released...

While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, unknowingly...

Two women and two men tell their stories of exile caused by being lesbian, transgender, bisexual and gay.

The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole series of incidents, misunderstandings, will...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian...

Short film about the difficulty of casting fo a film about Algeria.

A small Algerian town, off the beaten track of the war that is tearing the country apart. At the heart of the crisis that is destroying it, two young...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts...

Algerian children, survivors of the war and refugeeing in Tunisian camps, recount the tragic events they have experienced, from drawings they have...

Constructing freestone buildings on the cheap, Pouillon made a name for himself at the end of the 1940s in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, shaking up...

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial...

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.

This film retraces the combat journey of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian War. When he left the Dellys barracks in October...