Algeria Movies

The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an Algerian family expropriated from its...

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

Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (Arabic: عبد القادر بن محي...

In one of the tribes of the Algerian Sahara, everyone awaits the arrival of the hero who will defend the rights of the poor. A man decides one day to...

The film mixes fiction, filmed documents and interviews which recounts the arrival in Paris of an Algerian immigrant lost in the metro. On December...

In a house in the heart of the Casbah of Algiers, a family is torn apart by the weight of war. Three divided brothers, caught up in the...

Sombrero is a 1986 crime comedy by Algerian director Rabah Bouberras, produced by ENTV. A gang smuggles precious diamonds hidden in a Mexican...

The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his...

In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on the community of Algerians in France are numerous....

Four short films covering the Algerian War, directed by three filmmakers, each telling a different story: The Maquis, The Rebel, The Rifle, and The...

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble widow who receives a customary purse of gold coins...

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide...

Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical...

Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody...

The artistic journey of Dahmane El Harrachi, born in 1925 in Algiers, bears the mark of his experience. An attentive and vigilant observer of the...

The film is set against the backdrop of the Algerian War. A determined French commander, who believes Algeria belongs to France, must deal with a...

Twenty-year-old Nora takes her grandmother’s body to Algeria. Once there, her family discourage her from attending the funeral. Trapped between...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the...

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