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- DirectorBelkacem Hadjadj
- DirectorBelkacem HadjadjStarsSaid AmraneSalem Aït-Ali-BelkacemMeriem BabesIn Algeria, in the Berber mountains, a father finds a dying young man in the snow. He takes him home where this young man starts a forbidden affair with his daughter.
- DirectorMohammed SoudaniThe Director Mohammed Soudani comes back to Algeria after 30 years with The photographer Michael von Graffenried to visit The Algerians he had photographed between 1991 and 2000 without them knowing it.
- DirectorMohamed FekraneStarsHabib KadiTony BaillargeatArsène MoscaIn Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS. He then took refuge in the Great Mosque of Paris. The imam decides to protect him by passing him off as a Muslim, as well as the other Jewish children that he manages to free with the help of the resistance networks. The French militia and the Gestapo have suspicions... This fiction film is based on the true story of the rector of the Paris mosque, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, who saved several Jews from deportation during the Second World War.
- DirectorOriane Brun-MoschettiLeïla MoroucheStarsRené VautierA journey in Algeria, in the company of René Vautier, founding father of Algerian cinema.
- DirectorWilliam KleinStarsEldridge CleaverKathleen CleaverCleaver, on film as in life, is a complex mixture of profound political insight, socially crystallized ghetto cultural patterns and a multifaceted human personality.
- DirectorHassen FerhaniStarsMalikaSamir El HakimChawki AmariIn the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams, Her name is Malika.
- DirectorDjamel KelfaouiStarsHasniKhaledMohamed KhelifatiRaï swept over Algeria in the early 1980s. A few years later, the leading figures of this musical movement: Cheb Khaled, Cheb Mami, Chaba Fadela set out to conquer France where they imposed themselves. Algeria then finds itself in an impasse of which the riots of 1988 will be the social echo; aspiring to a liberalization of morals, it suffocates under an ideological and moral yoke. For the first time, the raï, born in the territory of Oran, dared to express with force the misery of life, the aspirations of youth, but also the intoxication of the senses. Drawing from the source of their culture, young singers claim to be the heirs of the chioukhs, these artists of the beginning of the century who sang the classic texts of Bedoui and popular Arab-Andalusian poetry, in order to affirm the expression of the Arabic language to provide the cultural weapons of the nascent Algerian nationalism. With the death of Cheb Hasni, with the threats hanging over the artists and forcing them into exile, the terrorists think they have triumphed, but raï sets out to conquer the world, allowing millions of people to better understand Algeria. , an Algeria bruised and more creative than ever. Algeria, El Djazaïr, in love with freedom has given the world forever the raï as a heritage.
- DirectorDjamel KelfaouiStarsHasniDjamel KelfaouiThis film is a tribute to the great singer Cheb Hasni, idol of raï, who seduced Algerian youth with his love songs and who was assassinated in the middle of the street in September 1994 in Oran, at the age of 26. Unique and last interview filmed a few months before the singer's assassination. Djamel Kelfaoui, the director, is preparing a second part on the still current impact of Cheb Hasni on the youth of the 2000s. But during a location scout for this additional filming, he died in troubled circumstances on May 22, 2009 in Laghouat (Algeria). Algerian born in Paris in 1961, actor of local life in Bondy (93) where he created the festival Y'a de la suburb dans l'air, and figure of the intercultural movement for equality of the 80s, Djamel Kelfaoui has Several reports or documentaries, including Algeria, Memoirs made from raï broadcast on Arte in 2003. He leaves us an unfinished work that his family and friends intend to help save and make known to the general public.
- DirectorDjamel OuahabA documentary about the controversial and secret French nuclear testings in Algeria.
- DirectorMustapha KatebStarsAllel El MouhibRouichedLarbi ZekkalEl-Ghoula, denounces opportunism, corruption and criticizes the immobility of certain political leaders of the time and their ruinous management, with the intention of bringing about change. This social satire, inspired by letters spoken in the press of the time, tells the story of a corrupt official. It is a play depicting the difficulties encountered in the application of agricultural self-management. She laid bare the problems of managing the abuses of the conspiracies carried out against the agricultural workers he exploits on a daily basis. She speaks and stages the difficulties encountered in the application of agricultural self-management. El-Ghoula (The Vampire), tells the story of a manager, a real bloodsucker, who lives at the expense of the agricultural workers of an agricultural cooperative, a corrupt person... Instead of solving problems, this manager uses the hollow speeches and "revolutionary" slogans, to galvanize them and encourage them to continue the work. The opportunistic manager transforms the work of the fellahs into chaotic bureaucratic procedures, which negatively affect the income of the institution. Instead of exploiting every opportunity to achieve public interest goals, he does so for personal gain. Through the clumsy game of political leaders, notorious opportunists, the play denounces the mismanagement of public property, and points the finger at this kind of deviation.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsYorgo VoyagisMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaLeila ShennaA meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830
- DirectorMoussa HaddadStarsHadj AbderrahmaneYahia BenmabroukHattab Bel AliInspector Tahar and his apprentice are invited by Mama Traki, a popular Tunisian heroine, to spend their vacation in Tunis. Before leaving Algiers, they stop at a tourist complex where a murder has just been committed. The investigation full of surprises and twists and turns will take them to Tunis where they will find Ommi Traki and his family.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsKeltoumMohamed ChouikhHassan El-HassaniA story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of her son. The mother did not give up for the search of her son despite the difficulties and obstacles, and she went from one prison to another just to see her son one more time.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsMustapha KatebRouichedMahieddine BachtarziAn Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the guerrilla is active and the French military has to keep a close watch on the locals.
- DirectorKaddour Brahim ZakariaStarsHadj AbderrahmaneYahia BenmabroukZoubida Ben BahiA simple case of a car accident in the city of Oran turns into a real criminal investigation led by Inspector Tahar and his sidekick apprentice.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsBoualem BenaniAziz DeggaFarida MestoulA somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
- DirectorMohamed Lamine MerbahStarsAthmane AriouetHassan El-HassaniKeltoumIn 1880, it was decided that the Algerian peasants of the Ouarsenis mountains would be dispossessed of their land in favor of French settlers. Two methods were used to achieve this end, either outright force or a roundabout way, forcing the fellahs to pay fines too high to be paid. The uprooted then had to leave for the cities, swelling the mass of proletarians in the shantytowns.
- DirectorRené VautierStarsClaudia CardinaleRené Vautier's 1958 documentary shows the fight for Algerian independence from its French coloniser from the view point of sadoteur rebels.
- DirectorBenamar BakhtiStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiAthmane AriouetMahmoud AzizThe 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 events are taking place in southwestern Algeria. The film also tells about different stages of the resistance, especially about one of the uprisings of the Algerian people, namely "the battle of the sons of Sidi Sheikh Bouamama", in which French General Leuti was appointed to try to suppress and end this resistance.
- DirectorAbderrahmane BouguermouhStarsDjamila AmzalMohammed AbbesKamal AbderrahmaneAt the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian village of Tagsa. While waiting to be drafted into the French Army they have time to woo. Mokrane falls for beautiful Aazi and soon marries her only to find out that she can bear no child. Menach, on his part, is stongly attracted to Davda, but the latter is already married to a rich merchant...Happiness does not seem to be in store for the two former students...
- DirectorMohamed ZinetStarsGeorges ArnaudHimoud BrahimiSuzie NacerA mixture of archive images and fictional scenes, the film is a tribute to the city of Algiers, which is at the origin of the project. Random walks and meetings, Simon and his wife, a couple of French tourists, discover Algiers. Simon recognizes an Algerian in a bistro whom he was once tortured. The man stares at him. Panicked, Simon flees. "Tahia Ya Didou is the only film by actor Mohamed Zinet. Born from an order from the city of Algiers, which expected it to be a tourist documentary, it was not to the taste of the authorities and there is no not cut, no theatrical release.Despite everything, it has become a cult film, Tahia Ya Didou is much more than a promotional documentary.A tribute to the city of Algiers, to its inhabitants, it has an unclassifiable tone, cohabitation of comic burlesque and tragic reminiscences of the country's painful past."
- DirectorMoussa HaddadStarsRouichedBiyounaTayeb Abou El HassanWhile trying by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the Battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, is charged with terrorism on a misunderstanding by the colonial French army in "Hassan Terro ". Then after having escaped in "The Escape of Hassan Terro", Hassan is forced to join the resistance this time in "Hassan Terro in the Maquis".
- DirectorTayeb Mefti
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- DirectorAhmed LallemIn 1966, four years after the independence of Algeria. Ahmed Lallem directed "Elles", a documentary that gave the floor to first and final year high school girls in Algiers. Thirty years later, the director has found some of them: Souad, Farida, Hassina or Badra, beautiful, touching, intelligent women, who tell us about their lives, their choices, and remember their adolescence. Adolescence where high school constituted a freedom from the traditional family environment, a privilege for a girl to whom the State did not guarantee the right to education in the face of the law of patriarchy: when a pupil was withdrawn from school to be married, the state let things happen. Not content with having obtained the baccalaureate, Souad and Hassina, they faced their father to be able to continue their studies. First clashes... Thirty years later, these are mature and emancipated women who speak to us: "The Algerian woman moans, sometimes threatens, but rarely speaks. Despite everything, we want to talk because we have to". They talk. Those who left, those who stayed. They evoke those thirty years: hope, stubbornness, life, renunciations, Islamic fundamentalism and the family code. And their eyes and their smiles say a lot when they talk about the little nephews who come home from school telling their mothers, their aunts, that they must wear the hijab, stay at home and not drive the car. automobile. A tragic change for these women, for whom knowledge and the education of thought were and remain at the heart of life. Through their different paths, this film explores the complexity of the lives of Algerian women, their disappointments but also their combativeness, through, as a backdrop, the last thirty years of Algerian history.
- DirectorWilliam KleinStarsNina SimoneArchie SheppMiriam MakebaThis is a documentary film which explores both the politics and music of the First PanAfrican Cultural Festival. Third World solidarity was much in fashion in 1969, when the festival was held. Many of the interviewees hold forth about colonialism and neocolonialism, and the need for exploited countries to stick together. Held in Algeria, the filmmakers were able to interview Eldrige Cleaver and other Black Panthers during their exile there. Among the film's musical highlights is a performance by Miriam Makeba, followed by an interview with her.
- DirectorAhmed LallemIn the aftermath of independence, Algerian high school girls talk about their lives and comment on how they envisage the future, democracy, their place in society. "We talk a lot with my students about the status of women in Algeria and their dreams. They had written many powerful texts on these themes. A film club manager passed them on to Ahmed Lallem, whom I then met. The director of the school authorized her to conduct about forty preparatory interviews with tape recorders with high school girls, then to film with her team a debate in class where the teenagers spoke about their lives and their aspirations. He also filmed Arabic lessons given by Egyptian teachers from a very traditionalist religious point of view. Many distributed students from Kabylia spoke little Arabic and rejected the content of this teaching. (Monique Martineau, cooperating teacher in Algeria in 1966, present on the set) Born in 1940 in Sétif in Algeria, Ahmed Lallem is a member of the FLN and is part of the Lakhdar Hamina group in Tunis. He also works as a war reporter in the border area. After a period on Yugoslav television in Belgrade, he studied cinema for eight months at IDHEC in Paris, then took courses at the National School of Cinema, Theater and Television in Lodz, Poland. He made his debut as a director in 1963 and, in almost thirty years, shot two feature films and a dozen documentaries and reports. Her main subjects are the Algerian political awakening (Forbidden Zone, presented at the Directors' Fortnight in 1975), historical symbolism and cultural realities, but also taboos (the emancipation of women, the question of AIDS in Algeria). Since the mid-1990s, the director had been in exile in France. He died in Tours in 2009. In 1966, Ahmed Lallem directed Elles, an astonishing documentary in which, four years after the independence of Algeria, he gives a voice to high school girls in first and final year. A pretext to question the society in which he lives, and let young women evoke a daily life, frustrations that could perhaps change... The word "revolution" is not so far away, after all. The film will never be shown publicly in Algeria. Thirty years after Elles, Ahmed Lallem finds some of the high school girls and turns Algerian, 30 years later (1995): Souad, Farida, Hassina or Badra we talk and take stock, at the time of the "dark decade", on the rules of society, exile, lost illusions.
- DirectorDjamila Sahraoui
- DirectorAlexandra DolsStarsDanièle Djamila Amrane MinneFatma Chebbah AbdelliZohra Drif-BitatThrough interviews with former women combatants, this documentary recounts women's involvement and commitment to the struggle for Independence in Algeria.
- DirectorAmine RachediStarsLouisa IghilahrizThis fascinating and emotionally gripping documentary by director Amine Rachedi narrates the story of Louisette Ighilahriz, a young Algerian woman who joined the national liberation movement after her father was seized by French colonial authorities in the mid 1950s. As the film begins, Louisette is finally concluding her 40-year search for a French military doctor known to her only as Commander Richaud, in order to express her gratitude to him for saving her life. When Louisette and other Algerian resistance fighters were captured in a field in September of 1957, they were imprisoned and tortured by French troops for several months, until Commander Richaud discovered their condition and what was being done to them. He provided the prisoners with immediate medical attention and transferred them to a French prison where they would be treated in accordance with international laws. As Louisette Ighilahriz leads director Rachedi to the places where these awful events took place, she comments on the difficulty of adapting to daily life after the revolution and on the state of Algeria today.
- DirectorPhilippe BaronGéraldine SchwarzAlgeria, summer 1962, eight hundred thousand French people leave their native land in a tragic exodus. But they are 200,000 to decide to try the adventure of independent Algeria. Over the following decades, political developments will push many of these pied-noirs into exile in France. But some never left. Germaine, Adrien, Cécile, Guy, Jean-Paul, Marie-France, Denis and Félix, Algerians of European origin are among them. Some have Algerian nationality, others do not. Some speak Arabic, some don't. They are the last witnesses to the little-known history of these Europeans who remained out of loyalty to an ideal, a taste for adventure and an unconditional love for the land where they were born, despite all the adventures that free Algeria under construction had to cross.
- 1997–201753mTV EpisodeDirectorRabah ZanounStarsMohamed BenchicouMohammed HarbiDjanina Messali BenkelfatWho knows Emilie Busquant? Who knows that she was the companion of Messali Hadj, the father of Algerian nationalism, and that she would have sewn the first Algerian flag? In school textbooks, in French and Algerian official history, Emilie Busquant does not exist. This woman with an exceptional destiny was born on March 3, 1901 in Neuves-Maisons in Lorraine. She went to Paris in 1923 to find a job and met Messali Hadj, who had also come to find a job. A beautiful love story begins, she falls in love with both a man and a cause, the independence of Algeria. Together, they will create in 1926, the first Algerian independence party, the North African Star. She supports all her life in the struggle of the Algerian people. In school textbooks, in French and Algerian official history, Emilie Busquant does not exist. This woman with an exceptional destiny was born on March 3, 1901 in Neuves-Maisons in Lorraine. She went to Paris in 1923 to find a job and met Messali Hadj, who had also come to find a job. A beautiful love story begins, she falls in love with both a man and a cause, the independence of Algeria. Together, they will create in 1926, the first Algerian independence party, the North African Star. She supports all her life in the struggle of the Algerian people.
- DirectorJames BlueStarsPierre ProthonJean PélégriMarie DecaîtreA man returns to his native Algeria to visit his dying father there, at a time when the French colonial hold on that country is coming to its end.
- DirectorJames Blue"A burial, a cemetery made entirely of stones taken from the eroded lands encompassing the village where people lived and died." (James Blue). As usual, he sublimates this state-commissioned documentary on agronomy, bringing his aesthetic and poetic touch. It encompasses the theme of the film, in what touches it from more universal and existential angles; the carelessness of childhood, mourning, social condition... The meaning of life. This first short film in Algeria produced by Les Studios Africa by Georges Derocles, is the first of a series, preludes to his flagship feature film "Les Olives de la Justice".
- DirectorJean-Paul JanssenStarsPatrick BerhaultPatrick EdlingerJean-Paul JanssenOversand is one of the first films on free climbing, the third film in a series of three with "Overdon" in the Verdon, and "Over-Ice" in the icefalls of Oisans. Directed by Jean-Paul Janssen with French-speaking "climbing aces" of the time: Patrick Edlinger, Patrick Bérhault, Bernard Gorgeon, Hugues Jaillet, Jacques Perrier, Stéphane Troussier and Odette Schoënleb. The film, very visual and without dialogue, is shot in 35mm in Algeria, in the Sahara desert, in the region of Tamanrasset, in the parishes of the mountains of the Hoggar massif, under the eye of Tuareg caravans.
- DirectorChristophe RuggiaStarsBouzid NegnougNabil GhalemGalamelah LagraIn the sixties, around twenty families fled their Algerian village of el-Ouricia, driven by poverty or war. Refugees in Chaâba, a French shantytown, they face the hard learning of integration.
- DirectorAdila BendimeradDamien OunouriStarsAdila BendimeradDali BenssalahMohamed Tahar ZaouiInsipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandIrene PapasJean-Louis TrintignantThe public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
- DirectorAmar LaskriStarsHacène BenzerariMohamed Hadj SmaïnBrahim HadjadjA patrol of the National Liberation Army must convoy a French soldier taken prisoner to the Tunisian border.
- DirectorBelkacem HadjadjStarsLaëtitia EïdoAssaad BouabMelha MammeriThis film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur''as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation.
- DirectorLotfi BouchouchiStarsNadia KaciLaurent MaurelLayla MetssitaneSet during the Algerian War of Independence. In the film, the French army surrounds a southern Algerian village where they believe an enemy is being hidden and force the inhabitants to either confront the issue or die of thirst.
- DirectorBenamar BakhtiStarsYahia BenmabroukAthmane AriouetWardia Hamtouchea story about a group of people trying to travel to Algiers but the problem is in the way of travel as all the buses that pass are completely filled and no one wants to take them. then everyone decides to find a taxi. The driver accepts to take them all and along the way many situations occur.
- DirectorTewfik FaresStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiCheikh NourredineMohamed ChouikhVery very very very good movie. Excellent music from « Georges Moustaki» Takes place before the independence Algerian war. Shows how people restart to fight after a 100 year of colonization And after the end of «emir Abdelkader».
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsMustapha El AnkaQuardia HamtoucheMazouz Ould-AbderrahmaneOn the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they think of themselves as the heroes of American soap opera and movies, so JR, Sue Ellen, Rambo, Kojak, Spock and others take possession of bodies and minds, with many typical American culture elements. These heroes mix in a beautiful funny mess, with tradition and modernism, Islam and television, reality and fiction.
- DirectorMohamed Slimane RiadStarsRouichedDoudja AbdounFarida AmroucheHassen, tired and worn out by the long years of post-independence, gets a taxi license as a former fighter, traveling through the streets of Algiers and experiencing the most incredible adventures.
- DirectorMustapha BadieStarsRouichedSid Ali KouiretChafia BoudraaHassan Terro is released from the prison of the French forces to lead them to Algerian rebels, because the authorities see him as an important man responsible for the revolution. Indeed, he is able to reach rebel leaders but he is a naive man who fails many tasks entrusted to him by the rebels.
- DirectorAbdelkrim BouguerraStarsMohamed IguerbouchèneAmir NebbacheMohamed Iguerbouchène was born on February 7, 1907 in Aït Ouchène in Algeria. He left for England in 1923 where he studied music and harmony. Subsequently, he went to Vienna, Austria, to learn piano techniques where he won 1st prize in harmony and piano. Mohamed Iguerbouchen became a composer, he composed four symphonies and several film scores including the famous "Pépé Le Moko" (1937) with Jean Gabin. Mohamed Iguerbouchène bowed out on August 21, 1966 following a long illness.
- DirectorMohamed Meziane YalaStarsCheikh NourredineLaurence JeanneretMadjid FarèsChants 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 individual and group behavior in this context. An unthinkable, even dangerous, romantic relationship, born in this context between Catherine, daughter of a settler, and Abdelmalek, son of a blacksmith. Managing his vast property in a feudal manner, Monsieur Marcel whose only ambition is his personal enrichment to the detriment of the community. Everyone fears his authority except his daughter Catherine, a student in France, who returns home during the holidays. She does not stop herself from expressing to him her ideas of justice which go against family and colonial practices. Catherine and Abdelmalek's romance makes relationships increasingly strained, but the call for freedom will be stronger than a woman's love.
- DirectorElias BelkeddarStarsReda KatebBenoît MagimelMeriem AmiarOmar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.
- DirectorYann Arthus-BertrandYazid TiziStarsYann Arthus-BertrandJalil LespertFlying around Algeria, the north African country.
- DirectorAndré SarrouyStarsBrahim DahmounRachid KsentiniIkach, is a farce in two acts in popular Arabic, written by André Sarrouy and adapted and directed by himself. A critique of marriage in colonial Algeria at a time when women were little taken into account. Cunning of wives and stupidity of husbands.
- DirectorAndré SarrouyStarsIrma IchouDali LékhalEl Kamal
- DirectorJacques SéveracStarsLouise CarlettiMaurice EscandeÉdouard DelmontIn a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
- StarsSid Ahmed AgoumiTaha El AmiriMustapha KatebHistorical film in four scenes which retrace the returns, the progress and the outcome of the war of liberation in Algeria. The first painting, "The land was thirsty" describes aspects of injustice and colonial oppression. The second "The Paths to the Prison" recounts the sufferings of the people engaged in combat. The last two are the stories of two lives.
- DirectorYoucef AkikaGhaouti BendedoucheAbderrahmane BouguermouhThis film was considered a testing ground for young O.N.C.I.C. directors. Today there is no longer a copy and the negative was accidentally destroyed. The Algerian Cinematheque has a copy of the very beautiful part shot by Abderrahmane Bouguermouh "La Give": A young schoolgirl from Kabylia is tasked by the resistance fighters with transmitting a message which is hidden in a thrush.
- DirectorTariq TeguiaStarsSamira KaddourRachid AmraniAhmed BenaïssaIn a time when Algeria has been consumed by warfare and strife for more than a decade, a man who longs to return to the peaceful streets of Rome takes his girlfriend on a desperate quest to procure the papers that will allow the pair to seek out a brighter future.
- StarsFéodor AtkineOn August 5, 1928, after 2 hours and 32 minutes of racing, the 71st rooster wearing the bib entered the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam. Ahmed El Ouafi Bouguéra wins the gold medal and becomes the first Olympic champion from the African continent. He achieved his feat under the tricolor flag. The start of his real marathon is underway. The history of sport extends to the history of Algeria and France. This documentary retraces the different stages of the life of this great champion, not only the history of sport but also the great story. Archival photographs and interviews mingle with the painted paintings. The series thus once again gives voice to this forgotten hero, one of the great heroes of immigration who defended France for more than a century.
- DirectorMarie-Claire RubinsteinStarsFernand PouillonNadir BoumazaBenjamin StoraIn this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitants who live there, the architectural achievements of the French urban planner Fernand Pouillon in Algiers. In particular the vast complexes of hundreds of social housing units, including the most famous Diar E Saâd (1953), Diar El Mahçoul (1954) and Climat de France (1957). The historical context, during the war of independence is related by the historian Benjamin Stora and Nadir Boumaza. This documentary also evokes the personality of Fernand Pouillon in a post-colonial context.
- DirectorChristian MeunierStarsFernand PouillonJean-Jacques DeluzRachid FehriConstructing 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 his peers who only dreamed of towers and concrete bars. In Algiers, until Independence, he built in record time thousands of homes for the poorest, real urban projects inspired by traditional forms. In the Paris region, to build comfortable buildings quickly and well, nestled in the greenery, he becomes a promoter: this too adventurous bet leads him to prison and retains his reputation. Not very explicit about this complex affair, but seduced by a contemporary architecture that combines technical inventiveness and ancient references, Christian Meunier films by multiplying the angles of view. Today's lively atmospheres are interspersed with archive footage, while Pouillon's writings are read off. Moved, his collaborators evoke a demanding and generous man, with an infectious passion.
- DirectorJ.R. BarthGeorges ClercThis is 1945 and thanks to air travel, Algeria and Algiers have become (at least this is what the commentary claims), part of the Parisian suburbs. Algiers is really a must-see destination with its wide boulevards, its modern buildings on the one hand and its picturesque Moorish quarters, including the mysterious Casbah, on the other hand. Not so far away from the capital of the French colony, there are treasures like the turquoise sea coast, the mountains of Kabylia or the freshness of desert oases. So, just go and buy your air ticket, you won't forget the experience.
- DirectorAli MouzaouiStarsOuardia Ould TalebHamza IguerAbderrhamane Debiane"Mimezrane, The Girl with Braids" is the adaptation of a traditional Berber tale. The young orphan Mimezrane is struck by a curse: she cannot give birth to a child until she has the bracelets of Fertility. The very ones that make you blind if you haven't touched them before looking at them. Her lover, Hennouche, her lifelong lover, is ready to do anything to find them.
- DirectorAli MouzaouiStarsMouloud MammeriAn emblematic figure in the defense of Berber culture, Mouloud Mammeri (1917-1989) experienced numerous confrontations with the authorities in Algeria, including the suspension in 1973 of the teaching of Berber at university and the ban of the conference he was to deliver on March 10, 1980 at the University of Tizi Ouzou on ancient Kabyle poetry... which will be the detonator of the powerful and harshly repressed cultural demands movement of April 1980, also called the Berber Spring. Mouloud Mammeri is one of the "historians" of French-speaking Algerian literature from the middle of the last century who, through his pen, gave back the soul to a country by giving it back its voice.
- DirectorAli MouzaouiStarsMouloud FeraounDocufiction about Mouloud Feraoun, an algerian author who upholds the great values of the Universal Man. It is in the name of man that Feraoun stands up against injustice. It is in the name of man that he is tormented by war. Feraoun is a solitary creator who suffers to the point of wishing for liberating madness. It is through his work that the portrait of a humble and discreet author, a talented writer and convictions emerges. Most of the time, I let him talk about himself in simple and fair words. I compile his moments of hope, worry, dreams and fears. During all my research, a generous and good Mouloud Feraoun stood out to me who did not hesitate to expose an inhuman and shameful colonial system. His clear and straightforward voice echoes the cry of a people from whom he has never separated.
- DirectorNicolas ThepotStarsGustave GuillaumetÉtienne DinetEugène FromentinOrientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th century, it marked the interest and curiosity of artists and writers for the countries of the West (the Maghreb) or the Levant (the Middle East). Orientalism was born from the fascination of the Ottoman Empire and followed its slow disintegration and the progression of European colonizations. This exotic trend is associated with all the artistic movements of the 19th century, academic, romantic, realistic or even impressionist. It is present in architecture, music, painting, literature, poetry... Picturesque aesthetics, confusing styles, civilizations and eras, orientalism has created numerous clichés and clichés that we still find today in literature or cinema.
- DirectorAssia Djebarhis film essay pieces together various photographs and footage of the Zerda ceremony from colonial archives, with anonymous poetic voice-overs recounting the lived experiences of indigenous Algerians.
- StarsAhmed BedjaouiMouny BerrahAlbert CervoniTélé Ciné Club, presented by Ahmed Bedjaoui, the Algerian Mr. Cinema, is a program broadcast on Algerian television from December 1969 to 1989. The program presented to viewers current cinema news from all over the world with prestigious guests on set, directors, film critic, actors. First in Arabic, the program was in French, for better communication with the French guests (directors, film critic, actors etc) in particular.
- DirectorHassen FerhaniFarouk BeloufaStarsAmandine MaudetLyès SalemAs usual, Slim goes to the Point Ephémère bar in Paris to have a last drink. As is often the case, he finds Lily there, an eccentric and intriguing character, then Seiko, whom he knew as a child soldier, once in Sierra Leone. While he listens to Lily tell him a few stories, Slim watches the Seiko ride, tracked and soon arrested by two plainclothes police officers.
- StarsKamel DynamiteFarid KessaissiaSamia Benkherroubi"Bled Music" is an Algerian musical television program broadcast on ENTV between 1991 and 1992. directed by Aziz Smati and presented by Kamel Dynamite, Farid Rockeur and Samia Benkherroubi. The show, with its irreverent tone, was very popular and had a significant impact on the Algerian music scene, allowing the emergence of many artists including Chaba Fadela, Cheb Sahraoui, Cheb Anouar and Mohamed Lamine. A ranking of music videos by popularity and relied on fans sending their votes by mail. At the end of the 1980s, unrest broke out in Algeria which led the country into a Black Decade. At this time, fundamentalist groups attempted to ban music and most other forms of artistic expression. The show continued to air despite death threats, but on February 14, 1994, Aziz Smati was shot in both legs by a young extremist, which ultimately led to the end of the show .
- DirectorMohamed Rachid BenhadjStarsBoubakeur BelaroussiDalila HelilouAthmane AriouetA young disabled man named Moussa live in an oasis in the Algerian desert. His sister Zineb take care of him and protect him while working in dates factory to provide for both of them. In the desert, Moussa would like to grow a rose.
- DirectorSafinez BousbiaStarsRachid BerkaniAhmed BernaouiRobert CastelEl Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Muslim and Jewish musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago, and recently reunited for an exceptional concert. These musicians share a passion they never lost: the soul of Algiers, Chaâbi music.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsRouichedTayeb Abou El HassanMahieddine BachtarziLiving in Algiers in 1956 is no bed of roses. Especially when you are a meek little fellow called Hassan who, to stay out of trouble, is all things to all people and whose only act of "bravery" is to (try to) rule his wife with a rod of iron. Alas for him not only does his wife show resistance but the cowardly little man happens to be mistaken for... a dangerous terrorist!
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsMichel AuclairSid Ali KouiretJulien GuiomarDuring the Algerian war of independence, an important leader of the FLN (National Liberation Front) is arrested by the army, which uses the most violent methods to make prisoners talk. But one French officer has a crisis of conscience while witnessing the brutality of his own army.
- DirectorDjamel-Eddine ChanderliMohammed Lakhdar-Hamina"La Voix du Peuple," composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict of the Algerian resistance. Participating in a war of real images against French colonial propaganda, these images aimed to show the images that the occupier had censored or distorted, by showing the extortions of the French occupation army: torture, arrests and arbitrary executions, napalm bombings, roundabout fires, erasing entire villages from the map, etc. This is what the French media described as a "pacification campaign".
- DirectorDjamel-Eddine ChanderliMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaLes Fusils De La Liberte (1961) is a docu-fiction which recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission is to transport weapons and ammunition from Tunisia across the Algerian Sahara during the Algerian liberation war (1954-1962) against the French army of occupation.
- DirectorDjamel-Eddine ChanderliMohammed Lakhdar-Hamina"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to inform the international community at the UN in 1959 on the objectives pursued by the Algerian resistance during the war of 'Algeria. Independence in Algeria (1954-1962). In 1959, Djamel-Eddine Chanderli and Mohammed Lakdar-Hamina produced Djazaïrouna (Our Algeria) from images taken by René Vautier and Doctor Pierre Chaulet. This film, completed a little later and will result in the film "The Voice of the People". This documentary on the history of Algeria through a montage of current events, traces the political and military actions of the A.L.N, the demonstrations of December 1960, and the attack on a fortified French base on the border between Algeria and Tunisia.
- DirectorDjamel-Eddine ChanderliMohammed Lakhdar-Hamina"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was killed in a bombing by the French colonial army of occupation. The family, after a long journey, heads towards the refugee camps on the Tunisian border. Produced by the Cinema Service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA) in the midst of the war of independence, these films were intended to re-inform the population and international public opinion on the abuses committed by the French colonial army: torture, arrests and arbitrary executions, napalm bombings, fires in farms, entire villages wiped off the map, etc. which the French media described as a "pacification" campaign. The latter censoring or reorienting any images that could harm the colonial narrative.
- DirectorNabil DjedouaniStarsPhilomène DebienMehdi DjaoudMounsiFebruary 1980, young Abdelkader Lareiche was shot in the head by a building guard in a housing estate in Vitry. In a context marked by several racist crimes and a policy of security repression, his friends are mobilizing around the "Rock Against Police" movement. Forty years after the events, Philomène sets out to meet the activists and actors of this movement.
- DirectorAbdenour ZahzahStarsPierre ClémentPierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make a film on the country's independence in 1957. Destiny led him to Algeria and his presence in February 1958 at the Tunisian-Algerian border changed his life. . Forever. He took his camera and photographed the attacks on Sakia Sidi Youssef before committing himself body and soul to the Algerian cause. Shortly after, he directed the film "Algerian Refugees" before being arrested, tortured and imprisoned, while his third film, "The National Liberation Army in Almaki", was not finished. Abdel Nour Zahzah, a director who commemorates Pierre Clément, the director who risked his life, the brother of the Algerian resistance, who disappeared in 2007.
- DirectorMohamed BouamariStarsTayeb Abou El HassanHassan El-HassaniAhmed KadriA modern couple seeks to find marital happiness in a context where Algerian society is taking the "first step" towards female emancipation. A woman becomes president of a popular municipal assembly. Will she find happiness ?
- DirectorMohamed LatrècheStarsBoudjemaâ KarècheMohamed LatrècheHe is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision: he will no longer talk about cinema. Boudjemâa, our living memory. That of Algerian cinema, African cinema, Arab cinema, cinema in short. The Algiers Cinematheque. The "masterpiece of Algerian cinema". Boudjemâa Karèche directed it for 34 years. So why does Boudjemâa no longer talk about cinema? The answer lies next to the circumstances which caused his ouster from the Cinémathèque. Boudjemâa was silent. The time has come for him to let the word think for itself.
- DirectorMohamed BouamariStarsAhmed BenchoubanAhmed GambiddiFettouma Ousliha-BouamariBelkacem, who went mad under torture by the French army during the Algerian war, is in critical condition. His wife treats him and also leads the reconstruction of the village devastated by the occupier.
- DirectorMohamed BouamariStarsMohamed ChouikhAhmed BenmensourAnissa MezaguerAlgerian youth of the 1960s, straddling traditional South Mediterranean and Western culture and the desire for emancipation of younger generations to find true love.
- DirectorPierre MathioteStarsGaston RevelHervé AllegAhmed Ben BellaThanks to the discovery of completely new archives belonging to Gaston Revel, the viewer will discover Algeria at the end of the 1930s as it revealed itself to this young French teacher. He will understand the disorientation and isolation of the rural schoolteacher in the difficult years of the Second World War. It will measure the vigor and bitterness of the political and union battles led by an activist of the post-war Algerian Communist Party and the violence of the tensions which accompanied the march towards independence and the construction of the new Algerian state. A unique and exceptional fact in Algeria, during the municipal elections, Gaston Revel was elected in Bougie (Constantinois) in the second electoral college reserved for Muslims only. "Gaston Revel, a teacher in Algeria" is a film which sheds light on Algeria from the inside from 1936 to 1965, thirty decisive years from a completely new perspective.
- DirectorViviane CandasBy meeting his former comrades in combat, the film follows the journey of Yves Mathieu, anti-colonialist in Black Africa then lawyer for the FLN. Upon Algeria's independence, he drafted the March Decrees on vacant property and self-management, promulgated in 1963 by Ahmed Ben Bella. Yves Mathieu's life is punctuated by his commitments in an Algeria that was then called "The Lighthouse of the Third World". The director, who is his daughter, looks back on the conditions of his death in 1966.