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- A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830
- During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
- Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.
- Down in a dark well, an amnesiac little boy called Adi regains consciousness. Accompanied by two strange creatures, he tries to get his memory back and realises that his quest is more complicated than it seems.
- The kidnapping of a little girl creates tension and suspicion in Algiers. Only Dounia, a brilliant psychiatrist, and Sami, a police inspector, can unearth the demons of the past.
- The influential politician and activist Frantz Fanon works as a psychiatrist in Algeria between 1953-1956. He pioneers new social therapies to treat the psychological effects of racism during the decolonization movement.
- Follows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.
- Adam and Nisma's friendship turns into conflict as they uncover dangerous secrets about each other, threatening the future of the newspaper. Forced to work together to save the publication from bankruptcy, they must confront their pasts.
- Two feuding matriarchs engage in chaos and dysfunction during a family beach vacation in prolific Algerian director Merzak Allouache's chaotic family dramedy.
- An eighth daughter. In this Saharan village, what a disgrace for Amara to have no heir. Blinded by anger, he repudiates his wife. But Amara cannot bear that others know a happiness that has been denied to him.
- Driven by an urgent need to amass a large sum of money in a short time, a man assembles a team specializing in theft and fraud, leveraging its members' skills in disguise and deception to exploit their victims. Though united by a common goal, each member harbors their own motives and ambitions.
- A story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of her son. The mother did not give up for the search of her son despite the difficulties and obstacles, and she went from one prison to another just to see her son one more time.
- In region of Guelma, a small village called Heliopolis , the daily life of an Algerian family takes its usual course. But on May 8, 1945, the day the end of World War II was announced, demonstrations by the Algerian people against the French colonial power and for the country's independence took place, which were bloodily suppressed by the French army and French settler militias. The event went down in history as the Sétif and Guelma massacre.
- In the Mahrousa neighborhood, three young women are drawn into a dangerous game of revenge, to confront a wealthy man whose conflict with them reveals buried secrets.
- set in the Algerian War. A determined French commander, who believes Algeria belongs to France, must deal with a soldier who rebels when asked to execute an Algerian freedom fighter, The finale is set in the blistering desert as the soldier seeks to escape.
- Algeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, cross the desert in search of Abu Leila, a dangerous terrorist.
- Just released from a French prison, Kamel is deported to his native Algeria. At first welcoming the altered pace of village life, he feels increasingly alienated by its sexism and violent intolerance, and gradually plots his escape.
- An Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the guerrilla is active and the French military has to keep a close watch on the locals.
- After many years of having worked as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum, Alloune decides to go to America in search of his ancestors. They were taken away from his village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World.
- Living in Algiers in 1956 is no bed of roses. Especially when you are a meek little fellow called Hassan who, to stay out of trouble, is all things to all people and whose only act of "bravery" is to (try to) rule his wife with a rod of iron. Alas for him not only does his wife show resistance but the cowardly little man happens to be mistaken for... a dangerous terrorist!
- One summer in the late '80s, an Algerian family takes to the road to reach Marseille from the Paris suburbs. On the horizon, a ferry, the port of Algiers, a vacation "back home" in a mixture of joy and excitement, freedom and nostalgia.
- During a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is lynched to death by a group of young men, while swimming offshore. Nobody seems to witness her disappearing. Anxiety and fear grow among the family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly die.
- Lehlou Fechouch is 30 years old and works in a popular restaurant called La Gargotte. One day, he is contacted by a lawyer who informs him that his uncle, Mahieddine Fechouch, is looking for him. Mahieddine finds himself in a dilemma. Under his father's orders, he must welcome Lehlou, whose father, Mahieddine's brother, has passed away, and let him live with him, or let his nephew go with half of his deceased father's inheritance.
- A look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.
- Algeria, February 2019. A wave of protests takes over the streets of Algiers against the 5th candidacy of then president Bouteflika. Nardjes, a young activist, finds in the movement a space to demand a better future for her country.
- During the first years of Algeria's independence, Djaffar and Hamid embrace a bright and promising future. After several decades, secrets and betrayals drive them apart.
- A patrol of the National Liberation Army must convoy a French soldier taken prisoner to the Tunisian border.
- Before he died, the "Sultan Boualem" decided to elect his successor among his two children: the "El amir Kamel" and the "El amir Ashour". Finally, he chooses "Ashour", which provokes the anger of "Kamel" who decides to leave the kingdom, and after several years of governance by "Sultan Ashour", the kingdom takes its name and becomes "Kingdom ashouriya"
- This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur''as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation.
- Hassan Terro is released from the prison of the French forces to lead them to Algerian rebels, because the authorities see him as an important man responsible for the revolution. Indeed, he is able to reach rebel leaders but he is a naive man who fails many tasks entrusted to him by the rebels.
- Algiers, nowadays, Adel, 8 years old, has been taken to his grandparents Khadidja and Lounès because his parents Rachid and Safia have been quarreling. Adel was supposed to stay with his grandparents for one week end ; then another week begins and he misses school; then he feels that he has lived there for ever. Khadidja, a house wife, will try to introduce Adel to her everyday life in her apartment and Lounès, a retired man, will introduce him to the great world of animals. From day to day, the child and his grandmother hold on to the question "how big is your love" to help them get through this difficult period and grow closer to each other.
- An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
- The series tells the story of "Timosha", who faces challenges due to her appearance and seeks to change a superficial work environment in a comedic framework.
- The series covers a variety of events and issues in Algerian society, with each episode featuring a separate title, such as the helicopter conflict, the legendary wedding, and more.
- After 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.
- Aissa Ziani, who was unjustly imprisoned in 2014 after uncovering corruption cases while working for Aziz Toughar. Aissa spends five years in prison, emerging determined to take revenge and restore his and his family's dignity. Meanwhile, the police are pursuing Aziz Toughar, believing they can arrest him by tracking Aissa's movements. Therefore, Officer Manal El Hachemi is tasked with approaching Aissa's family to uncover the details of the case. Aissa's mother, Fatna, notices that prison has changed her son's behavior, so she strives to alert him and encourage him to forget the past and move forward with a new life. Despite her deep love for him, she is sometimes forced to be harsh with him in the hope that he will come to his senses.
- 1960, Sahara, Algeria, Abbes witnesses his dog being taken by French soldiers heading towards the Military base." Without family support, the kid sets out to retrieve his dog, unaware that it's the day of France's first nuclear test.
- During the Algerian war of independence, an important leader of the FLN (National Liberation Front) is arrested by the army, which uses the most violent methods to make prisoners talk. But one French officer has a crisis of conscience while witnessing the brutality of his own army.
- As Aisha gets to know Karim amid a tense atmosphere, an unusual love story develops between them, upon which they defy all circumstances.
- Amin and Myriam are secretly in love. Their families are rivals and when their relationship is discovered, conflict is inevitable. In the quiet atmosphere of the palm groves, the two communities have long nurtured the seeds of discord and hatred. The persecution is the first signal of inevitable evil. From inside the cave where they have taken refuge, the two young people hear the cries of a senseless murderous raid. A universal metaphor to denounce the horror of all extremist violence, THE DESERT ARK is a splendid and terrifying metaphor for a burning contemporary reality.
- Drama about a young Algerian man who studied in Paris, France. After school he returns to his native country - Algeria. But nobody wants to know him, meet him, nobody understands him nor his mother.
- A mixture of archive images and fictional scenes, the film is a tribute to the city of Algiers, which is at the origin of the project. Random walks and meetings, Simon and his wife, a couple of French tourists, discover Algiers. Simon recognizes an Algerian in a bistro whom he was once tortured. The man stares at him. Panicked, Simon flees. "Tahia Ya Didou is the only film by actor Mohamed Zinet. Born from an order from the city of Algiers, which expected it to be a tourist documentary, it was not to the taste of the authorities and there is no not cut, no theatrical release.Despite everything, it has become a cult film, Tahia Ya Didou is much more than a promotional documentary.A tribute to the city of Algiers, to its inhabitants, it has an unclassifiable tone, cohabitation of comic burlesque and tragic reminiscences of the country's painful past."
- This film is a tribute to the great singer Cheb Hasni, idol of raï, who seduced Algerian youth with his love songs and who was assassinated in the middle of the street in September 1994 in Oran, at the age of 26. Unique and last interview filmed a few months before the singer's assassination. Djamel Kelfaoui, the director, is preparing a second part on the still current impact of Cheb Hasni on the youth of the 2000s. But during a location scout for this additional filming, he died in troubled circumstances on May 22, 2009 in Laghouat (Algeria). Algerian born in Paris in 1961, actor of local life in Bondy (93) where he created the festival Y'a de la suburb dans l'air, and figure of the intercultural movement for equality of the 80s, Djamel Kelfaoui has Several reports or documentaries, including Algeria, Memoirs made from raï broadcast on Arte in 2003. He leaves us an unfinished work that his family and friends intend to help save and make known to the general public.
- A small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved.
- Omar, a futureless teenager, loves his dose of Madame Courage. He forgets his struggle, feels invincible and steals what he wants. That is, until he encounters Selma.
- After the December riots and the first peaceful marches in Algeria, while the Arab Spring begins in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi wants to gather his actors to show them the unfinished editing of the film he made two years ago on the illusion of a young man who seeks to express his artistic ideas. He seeks another point of view, especially an end, and he relies on the reactions of the actors to invent a new resolution of his history, in a country suddenly raised by a wave of disputes. During the projection of the film, the debate takes place: what is the place of art creation in Algeria today? How to create something without confronting censorship? How to resist ? By making movies or walking in streets towards a new revolution? Two stories intertwine, fiction and reality? A new vision of the Algerian youth of today in full political and artistic questioning.
- Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Algerian farmer. They meet and manage to communicate, transcending all the cultural barriers that separate them.