Movies: Maghreb

  • 2017
    Nous n'étions pas des héros

    Nous n'étions pas des héros (2017)

    Nous n'étions pas des héros

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    The city of Lambèse is the scene of torture, both physical and moral, for the resistance fighters of the Algerian War. In the form of a fictional account adapted from the novel "Le camp" by Abdelhamid Benzine, the conditions in the special camps of t...

    Nous n'étions pas des héros
  • 1985
    How Much I Love You

    How Much I Love You (1985)

    How Much I Love You

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    Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the secret 1950s nuclear tests that France conducted using Algerian prisoners, How Much I Love You appropriates archival footage produced by the French colon...

    How Much I Love You
  • 1956
    Les Anneaux d'Or

    Les Anneaux d'Or (1956)

    Les Anneaux d'Or

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    At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold rings to sell them and thus buy boats....

    Les Anneaux d'Or
  • 2001
    Holidays Despite All

    Holidays Despite All (2001)

    Holidays Despite All

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    Immigrated to the Paris region since 1964, Kader decides to spend the summer holidays with his family in his native village, not far from Algiers. These few weeks, so eagerly awaited by both sides, constitute a special moment full of strong emotions....

    Holidays Despite All
  • 2020
    AÏT ATTA: Nomads of the High Atlas

    AÏT ATTA: Nomads of the High Atlas (2020)

    AÏT ATTA: Nomads of the High Atlas

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    The Aït Atta tribe of the High Atlas mountain range in Morocco preserves their ancestral right of access to the agdal, a communal land management system that dates back hundreds of years. The film follows Ben Youssef family’s arduous transhumance jou...

    AÏT ATTA: Nomads of the High Atlas
  • 2001
    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï

    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï (2001)

    Algeria, Memoirs of Raï

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    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
  • 2007
    Algérie Tours Détours

    Algérie Tours Détours (2007)

    Algérie Tours Détours

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    A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier, a militant filmmaker, considered "the dad" of Algerian cinema, set up the cine-pops. We recreate with him the device of itinerant projections and we...

    Algérie Tours Détours
  • 2001
    Toute l'Algérie du monde

    Toute l'Algérie du monde (2001)

    Toute l'Algérie du monde

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    The largest country in the Arab world and a producer of hydrocarbons, Algeria has everything it needs to weigh on the international scene. But Africa's second military power seems undermined by its internal problems. While the Bouteflika regime has f...

    Toute l'Algérie du monde
  • 1971
    El Fidayoune

    El Fidayoune (1971)

    El Fidayoune

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    In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor....

    El Fidayoune
  • 2008
    Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis

    Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis (2008)

    Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis

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    Portrait of Si Mohand U M'hand, an Algerian Amazigh poet from the end of the last century, whose tragic destiny was marked by wandering and revolt. Refusing all compromise, he lived in insubordination to the new order imposed by the French colonial p...

    Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis
  • 2022
    The Desert Rocker

    The Desert Rocker (2022)

    The Desert Rocker

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    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
  • 1973
    The Charcoal Maker

    The Charcoal Maker (1973)

    The Charcoal Maker

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    Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. His search for work in town ends in failure and he is forced to return to his village....

    The Charcoal Maker
  • 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
  • 1977
    Barrières

    Barrières (1977)

    Barrières

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    Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought about by the revolution. Tinted with historical symbolism, the film tells of the disaggregation of a feudal family when the father died....

    Barrières
  • 2019
    Boudjemâa et la Maison Cinéma

    Boudjemâa et la Maison Cinéma (2019)

    Boudjemâa et la Maison Cinéma

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    He 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 Algier...

    Boudjemâa et la Maison Cinéma
  • 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
  • 1961
    C'Est Pour Demain

    C'Est Pour Demain (1961)

    C'Est Pour Demain

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    C'Est Pour Demain
  • 1983
    The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting

    The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting (1983)

    The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting

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    “La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua” (1977). Powerful poetic essay based on archives, in which Assia Djebar – in collaboration with...

    The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting
  • 1989
    Hassan Niya

    Hassan Niya (1989)

    Hassan Niya

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    The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole series of incidents, misunderstandings, will punctuate his daily routine in which we find him in turn driver, waiter, welder, etc. But, he refuses to sub...

    Hassan Niya
  • 1958
    Algerian Refugees

    Algerian Refugees (1958)

    Algerian Refugees

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    Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre Clément is considered one of the founders of Algerian cinema. In this film he shows images of Algerian refug...

    Algerian Refugees