Movies: Maghreb

  • 2015
    Let Them Come

    Let Them Come (2015)

    Let Them Come

    9.72015HD

    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 legislative elections of 1991, a prelude to a decade of particularly barbaric violence, the Algeria...

    Let Them Come
  • 2006
    Letter to My Sister

    Letter to My Sister (2006)

    Letter to My Sister

    8.52006HD

    Nabila Djahnine, president of the feminist association Thirghri N'tmetout, died in hands of an armed group in Tizi Ouzou (Algeria) in 1995. The Islamists forced women, on pain of death, to wear the hijab or stop working. It was the first time a femin...

    Letter to My Sister
  • 1998
    The Desert Ark

    The Desert Ark (1998)

    The Desert Ark

    6.71998HD

    The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face inevitable conflict when their rival families discover their secret love. Taking refuge in a cave, they listen to the sounds of a...

    The Desert Ark
  • 1989
    Rose Of The Desert

    Rose Of The Desert (1989)

    Rose Of The Desert

    101989HD

    An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day. Moussa, disabled from birth, lives there with his sister Zineb; T...

    Rose Of The Desert
  • 1998
    Algérie, La vie quand même

    Algérie, La vie quand même (1998)

    Algérie, La vie quand même

    101998HD

    A small Algerian town, off the beaten track of the war that is tearing the country apart. At the heart of the crisis that is destroying it, two young men, without work, without leisure activities, without hope, without anything... The film follows th...

    Algérie, La vie quand même
  • 1961
    Yasmina

    Yasmina (1961)

    Yasmina

    101961HD

    "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 t...

    Yasmina
  • 2008
    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !

    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore ! (2008)

    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !

    102008HD

    Director Djamel Kelfaoui pays tribute to the great singer Cheb Hasni, king of sentimental raï, who became cult in Algeria and beyond its borders, and who was murdered in the street in September 1994 in Oran, at the age of 26. Unique and last intervie...

    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !
  • 1973
    The Good Families

    The Good Families (1973)

    The Good Families

    101973HD

    The film dialectically explores the phenomena of family alliances in urban and rural areas, technocracy, and the Algerian landed bourgeoisie. The film was completed but apparently never distributed by the ONCIC....

    The Good Families
  • 2017
    Algeria, The Two Soldiers

    Algeria, The Two Soldiers (2017)

    Algeria, The Two Soldiers

    102017HD

    "Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian War, who were driven in two completely opposite directions by the same keen sense of honor: Noël Favrelière deserted to free a young Algerian Muslim pri...

    Algeria, The Two Soldiers
  • 1987
    Gates of Silence

    Gates of Silence (1987)

    Gates of Silence

    101987HD

    In 1955, what was known as the "Algerian War" gradually escalated into all-out war, and the French army inexorably transformed into a soldiery accustomed to colonial humiliation and massacres. Amar is a young deaf and mute man who wants to join the r...

    Gates of Silence
  • 2008
    Arezki, l'indigène

    Arezki, l'indigène (2008)

    Arezki, l'indigène

    62008HD

    In 1895, young journalist Albertine Auclair arrives in the Kabylie during a family visit. The beauty of the region seduces her but she soon learns of the struggles of the native Algerians. She hears in particular about Arezki El Bachir, who was recen...

    Arezki, l'indigène
  • 1991
    Le Cri des hommes

    Le Cri des hommes (1991)

    Le Cri des hommes

    101991HD

    1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions....

    Le Cri des hommes
  • 1967
    The Way

    The Way (1967)

    The Way

    101967HD

    The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military prisons both in France and Algeria. In addition to attempts at escape, this prison drama also includes pr...

    The Way
  • 2005
    Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds

    Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds (2005)

    Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds

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    This video research is based on a trip to Morocco in July 2005, during which the director documented irregular migration transiting through Morocco, as well as their control. This geographical project focuses on the main migratory axes: Oujda, entry ...

    Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds
  • 1993
    The Casbah of Algiers

    The Casbah of Algiers (1993)

    The Casbah of Algiers

    101993HD

    The daily life and tribulations of colorful residents in the millennial popular district of the Casbah of Algiers....

    The Casbah of Algiers
  • 1983
    Song of Autumn

    Song of Autumn (1983)

    Song of Autumn

    101983HD

    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 individual and group behavior in this context. An unthinkable, even dangerous, romantic relationship, born in...

    Song of Autumn
  • 1963
    Le Serment

    Le Serment (1963)

    Le Serment

    101963HD

    The Oath, a TV film produced by Algerian television in 1963 following the end of the war of independence, tells the story of young Algerians who joined the resistance after the bloody repressions of May 1945 in Constantinois by the French colonial ar...

    Le Serment
  • 1974
    Forbidden Zone

    Forbidden Zone (1974)

    Forbidden Zone

    101974HD

    A revolutionary militant is killed during the repression of May 1945. His son, who is unaware of the real circumstances of the murder, ends up being attached to the ideal for which his father died....

    Forbidden Zone
  • 1996
    The Forgotten Hill

    The Forgotten Hill (1996)

    The Forgotten Hill

    8.51996HD

    At 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 fa...

    The Forgotten Hill
  • 2001
    Algérie, la vie toujours

    Algérie, la vie toujours (2001)

    Algérie, la vie toujours

    102001HD

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    Algérie, la vie toujours