North Africa Movies

The film, shot in 1938, is part of a series entitled “The true face of Algeria”. The film highlights the proximity of Algiers to Paris and promotes ai...

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

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

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her b...

At a dangerous time in Algeria, 'Douar de Femmes' is a story of ordinary women who manage to defend themselves in extraordinary situations. The film f...

This first entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series of shorts visits northern Africa. Included are a look at the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, a...

Directed by Amar Laskri.

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 individua...

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 viole...

Directed by Rachid Benallal.

At the turn of 1990 in Algeria, in an end-of-era atmosphere marked by the victory of the Islamists in the municipal elections, then in the interrupted...

In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child...

An Algerian peasant (fellah),crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself, a...

Composed of three parts, this montage film addresses all aspects relating to the role of women in Algerian society: their ambitions, the role of the S...

Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought about by the revolution. Tinted with hi...