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Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Martin

In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785 two American ships were brought back to Algiers; in the winter of 1793, eleven...

Genre: Documentary

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“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des...

Genre: Drama

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"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to...

Genre: Documentary

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Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (Arabic: عبد القادر بن محي الدين (ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn), also known as Emir Abdelkader, or...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine

The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hasna El Becharia

In Algeria, pottery is different from one region to another, the result of the various influences it has undergone throughout history. If the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Slimane Hachi

Chants d’Automne (Song of Autumn), is a story of daily life on a colonial farm, at the start of the war of liberation in Algeria, describing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)

Genre: Documentary

Cast: François Mitterrand

The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The...

Genre: War

Cast: Athmane Ariouet

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yorgo Voyagis

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ahmed Benaissa

The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mustapha Belaïd

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. Camus, during his lifetime, had always refused to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Sénac

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. His search for work in town ends in failure and he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fettouma Ousliha-Bouamari

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gillo Pontecorvo

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mouloud Mammeri

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until today, no Algerian or even European report or...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: René Rouby

Directed by Ahmed Rachedi.

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Cast: Jacques Dufilho

In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abderrahmane Lotaisa

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hadj Sameer

Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aladin Reibel

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