Movies: Maghreb

  • 1989
    Lumières

    Lumières (1989)

    Lumières

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    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
  • 2008
    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !

    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore ! (2008)

    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !

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    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 !
  • 1980
    The Cork

    The Cork (1980)

    The Cork

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    On his return to Algeria, Belkacem Hadjadj, a young graduate of INSAS in Brussels, joined Algerian television and signed "Le Bouchon", his first feature in the register of an Italian comedy, around the misadventures of a tenant experiencing a water l...

    The Cork
  • 1975
    The Inheritance

    The Inheritance (1975)

    The Inheritance

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    A harrowing picture of the heritage of colonialism, focusing on a man driven mad by torture but saved by his wife, who restores his sanity and leads the progressive forces to rebuild the village....

    The Inheritance
  • 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
  • 1945
    Alger Et Ses Environs

    Alger Et Ses Environs (1945)

    Alger Et Ses Environs

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    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 air travel. The commentary supporting the images highlights the urban dynamism (“Every day, a new skys...

    Alger Et Ses Environs
  • 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
  • 1982
    Breakdown

    Breakdown (1982)

    Breakdown

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    "Rupture is a look at a complex and little-known period in the recent history of Algeria, that of the thirties, a time when a political conscience was beginning to assert itself. I wanted to understand how and by what miracle, despite the small indiv...

    Breakdown
  • 1976
    Echebka (الشبكة)

    Echebka (الشبكة) (1976)

    Echebka (الشبكة)

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    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)
  • 1967
    Hassan Terro

    Hassan Terro (1967)

    Hassan Terro

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    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
  • 1996
    The Forgotten Hill

    The Forgotten Hill (1996)

    The Forgotten Hill

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    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
  • 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
  • 2011
    Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète

    Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète (2011)

    Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète

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    Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one of the great French writers and poets and the only one of his reputation to have accompanied the Algerian revolution before November 1954. part of al...

    Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète
  • 1961
    Guns of Freedom

    Guns of Freedom (1961)

    Guns of Freedom

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    “Les Fusils De La Liberté” (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 w...

    Guns of Freedom
  • 2009
    Daniel Timsit, l’Algérien

    Daniel Timsit, l’Algérien (2009)

    Daniel Timsit, l’Algérien

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    Daniel Timsit, l’Algérien
  • 1967
    The Way

    The Way (1967)

    The Way

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    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
  • 2006
    Letter to My Sister

    Letter to My Sister (2006)

    Letter to My Sister

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    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
  • 1993
    The Casbah of Algiers

    The Casbah of Algiers (1993)

    The Casbah of Algiers

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

    The Casbah of Algiers
  • 2009
    Gerboise Bleue

    Gerboise Bleue (2009)

    Gerboise Bleue

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    "Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Sahara, is the starting point of France's nuclear power. These are powerful radioactive aerial shots carried out in areas belonging to the French army. Un...

    Gerboise Bleue
  • 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