Algeria Movies

Two women and two men tell their stories of exile caused by being lesbian, transgender, bisexual and gay.

A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a friend whether and how he should make a film out of this.

Writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar explores Algerian history, the psychological impact of war, and post-colonial female identity in this 1979 classic...

Jacqueline Gozlan - who left Algeria with her parents in 1961 - nostalgically retraces the history of the Algiers Cinematheque, inseparable from that...

Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transports us to the land where she was born, on the other...

Directed by Abdelaziz Tolbi.

This film is the product of a seven-year research journey on the popular insurrection of December 1960 in Algeria and the failure of the...

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

A poor man rescues a rich man from burglars. as a way for thanking him The rich guy invite him and his family to come and live in his luxurious...

A modern couple seeks to find marital happiness in a context where Algerian society is taking the “first step” towards female...

Directed by Mustapha Kateb.

Halim, a young man with intellectual disability, who's living with his single mother that struggles to take care of him

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

In 1950, the explorer Roger Frison-Roche made a crossing of more than a thousand kilometers on the back of a camel with the photographer Georges...

In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family for France, but immigration weighs on him and he...