Les Sept Remparts De La Citadelle

The foreign land

Farida is back in her father’s native Algeria for the first me since she was a child. She discovers her grandmother’s house in the middle of the coun

Elli Fat Mat

27 years after 1962, Antoine returns to Algiers...

1989

Red Dawn

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Sovie

1984

Papillon

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his esca

1973

Chronicle of a Latin American Subversive

1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in comman

1974

Salvador

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military

1986

Oranges Amères

Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial Algeria. Angele, an Algerian colonist with impecc

1997

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, Brit

2006

First Blood

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an

1982

A Captain's Honor

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. T

1982

Indochine

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnam

1992

Bab El Oued City

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that

1994

The Price of Freedom

In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and a guerrab (water distributor), having become aware

2007

China Is Still Far

On November 1, 1954, near Ghassira, a small village lost in the Aurès, a couple of French teachers and an Algerian boss were the first civilian victim

2010

Where Fig Trees Grow

An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.

2005

Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a b

1962

Captain Lechi

Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Leshi, a brave and cunning

1960

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries t

1937

Farewell to the King

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among

1989

Paroles d'un Prisonnier Français de l'ALN

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until today, no Algerian or even European report or documen

2010