Movies: Maghreb

  • 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
  • 1978
    Hassan Terro au Maquis

    Hassan Terro au Maquis (1978)

    Hassan Terro au Maquis

    101978HD

    While trying by all means to stay out of the bloody turmoil caused by the Battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive family man, is wrongfully accused of terrorism by the French colonial army in "Hassan Terro." After escaping in "The Escape of Ha...

    Hassan Terro au Maquis
  • 1976
    Echebka (الشبكة)

    Echebka (الشبكة) (1976)

    Echebka (الشبكة)

    101976HD

    Maamar (Sid Ali Kouiret), a young fisherman working in a small port in western Algeria, is forced to sell his goods at a discount every day to Si Khelifa (Abdelhalim Rais), owner of many trucks and a cannery where the wives work fishermen. He has a s...

    Echebka (الشبكة)
  • 2008
    Arezki, l'indigène

    Arezki, l'indigène (2008)

    Arezki, l'indigène

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    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
  • 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 !
  • 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
  • 1970
    Opium and the Stick

    Opium and the Stick (1970)

    Opium and the Stick

    7.61970HD

    In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged ...

    Opium and the Stick
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Palestro, Algérie : Histoires d'une embuscade

    Palestro, Algérie : Histoires d'une embuscade (2012)

    Palestro, Algérie : Histoires d'une embuscade

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    Palestro, Algérie : Histoires d'une embuscade
  • 2012
    El Gusto

    El Gusto (2012)

    El Gusto

    7.52012HD

    El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim 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, Chaabi music....

    El Gusto
  • 2023
    Zinet, Algiers, Happiness

    Zinet, Algiers, Happiness (2023)

    Zinet, Algiers, Happiness

    102023HD

    Who remembers Mohamed Zinet? In the eyes of French spectators who reserve his face and his frail silhouette, he is simply the “Arab actor” of French films of the 1970s, from Yves Boisset to Claude Lelouch. In Algeria, he's a completely different char...

    Zinet, Algiers, Happiness
  • 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
  • 2022
    The Desert Rocker

    The Desert Rocker (2022)

    The Desert Rocker

    102022HD

    The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to break through the social barrier of this culture, she empowers and inspires women of all ages by recl...

    The Desert Rocker
  • 1948
    La Renégate

    La Renégate (1948)

    La Renégate

    101948HD

    In 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...

    La Renégate
  • 1989
    Lumières

    Lumières (1989)

    Lumières

    101989HD

    Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist...

    Lumières
  • 2001
    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï

    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï (2001)

    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï

    102001HD

    In the 1980s, Algeria experienced a tumultuous social context which reached its peak during the riots of October 88. This wave of protest, with youth as its figurehead, echoed the texts of raï singers. Thirst for freedom, misery of life and the aspir...

    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï
  • 1967
    Hassan Terro

    Hassan Terro (1967)

    Hassan Terro

    8.61967HD

    While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, unknowingly offers hospitality to a mujahid actively sought by the army. French. A series of events and misunderstand...

    Hassan Terro
  • 1961
    J'ai Huit Ans

    J'ai Huit Ans (1961)

    J'ai Huit Ans

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    Algerian children, survivors of the war and refugeeing in Tunisian camps, recount the tragic events they have experienced, from drawings they have made themselves....

    J'ai Huit Ans
  • 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