Algeria Movies

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide l...

Mohamed Iguerbouchène was born on February 7, 1907 in Aït-Ouchen in Algeria. He left for England in 1923 where he studied music and harmony. Subsequen...

Director Karim Moussaoui wonders what would come close to be called Opera in his home country, Algeria. Together with his crew, he travels to the dese...

Directed by Abderrahmane Bouguermouh.

Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war of independence in Algeria from 1854 to 1962, and...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history and historical and spiritual heritage of Emir Abd El...

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...

Youssef, a director in his fifties, is preparing a film and goes scouting in the south of Tunisia. He travels the region, records images, meets a beau...

After a tragic accident kills her parents and brother, teenager Samaya is sent far away to study abroad by her wealthy grandfather, her only surviving...

A teenager describes the painting he sees off-screen. He highlights the thoughtful nature of the person facing him. Two other young persons then engag...

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,...

It is during a night in a post-reconstruction world that a masked call rings out. Cheikh Morad Djadja wanders through these non-places in search of an...

An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman.

A panoramic shot over the terraces of Algiers. The camera zooms in and out, seeming to unexpectedly capture the private daily conversations of the inh...

“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 Che...