Algeria Movies

Based on a sound experience that takes place in the streets of Algiers.

It is 1995. In a district in the suburbs of Algiers, 12-year-olds Samia and Nouara enjoy a happy friendship until violence suddenly appears in their l...

A 25-year-old transgender woman dons the mantle of a male taxi driver by day—compelled by family expectations and fear of social stigma and rejection....

What does smoking a cigarette mean if you stop smoking?

Louisa, in her fifties, puts up missing person posters in search of her daughter, Souad. In a few shots, Fayçal Hammoum portrays a night of wandering...

A filmmaker from Scotland tries to understand what it means to be between two cultures by spending time with the women in her Algerian family.

Starting from a small kiosk of old postcards as a derisory memorial of Algerian history, the visual artist questions the role of images - or the absen...

Invited for a second art residency at the Ateliers Sauvages in Algiers, Alexandra Roussopoulos meet again with the huge object she made a year ago; a...

Dahbia is attempting to give her youngest son Naoufel a better life. Her daugher Chahra has the same hopes for her young daughter, Douaa. Asma Benazou...

El Madani set out on an odyssey to discover the roots of the Gnawa music. Through concerts in Algeria, Morocco and France and interviews with Gnawa Di...

The Hirak protests appear as a counterpoint to the investigations conducted throughout the film, and seem to provide the gateway to the exploration of...

Nnuba, meaning “each in turn” in the Tamazight language, is the name of a long-standing women’s self-help organisation. Its objective is for each to t...

A panoramic shot over the terraces of Algiers. The camera zooms in and out, seeming to unexpectedly capture the private daily conversations of the inh...

On independence, Algeria had it written into its Constitution that all revolutionary and national freedom movements could claim political asylum. lt s...

To the west of Seriana, the world stops turning for an instant under the heat of the sun, due to a flat tyre... This film is part of the Minutes 2016...

A short film made for Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded (2013). World premiere screening on 28 August 2013 during the 70th Venice International Film Festiv...

In Algerian Novel - chapter 2, French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain reinterprets Algerian Novel - chapter 1. The film’s nested structure is a way to...

In Larbi Ben M’Hidi street, in Algiers, Farouk Azzoug and his son own a nomad kiosk where they sell old postcards and reproduction of archival photogr...