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- 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.
- 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.
- 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"
- 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
- 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.
- Nass Mlah City (Nice People City) consists of several Algerian actors considered among the best in the country whose personages change according to roles in each episode. It is considered as the most popular sitcom of Algeria in 2000s. The main and most present character in the series is the famous actress, singer and comedian Biyouna, and one of the best Algerian actors ever Salah Aougrout.
- Follows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.
- A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
- A look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.
- Koukou is called crazy for his different behavior. The village elders committee and his father decide to put him in a mental asylum.
- 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.
- The story of 45-year-old journalist Nacer, who has been monitoring the emergence of bizarre yellow sandstorms in and around Algiers.
- "Eysh Eysh" (What) is a song recorded by Algerian singer and sex symbol Yasmine Nayar and released as a single in 2017. The erotic song was a considerable success in its native Algeria and also managed to reach the #1 spot in a number of countries including Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon.
- 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.
- Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- After 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.
- 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.
- 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.
- Algeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, cross the desert in search of Abu Leila, a dangerous terrorist.
- This movie discusses Frantz Fanon's life and work, especially his involvement in the Algerian Revolution.
- Farid, a young urban dweller, gets lost far from the beaten tracks. His only solution to leave the region is to help a mysterious man who lives as a hermit in the forest. He later discovers that other creatures live in these places.
- In January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war in Lebanon. He witnesses the construction of the myth of Nahla, a singer adored by the Arab population.
- Thanks to the "civilian agreement" law, an Islamist is pardoned and reinstalled in society. He soon understands law doesn't erase the crimes he committed.
- An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
- At age 18, Fatiha divides her time between home and school. But when her parents decide to marry her to Hussein, her only a choice is to submit to their wishes.
- Almost 20 years after the Good Friday agreement that ended a 30-year civil war between the Protestant Loyalists and Catholic Republicans in Northern Ireland, this film looks back at the conflict's origins, and examines the strength of current peace. Partly shot during centenary celebrations of the Easter uprising that marked the beginning of the end of British dominance.
- 'And still, it remains' examines time, toxic colonialism and how we survive the end of our world. In 2021, radioactive sand resulting from French nuclear bombs traveled in the winds all the way from the Algerian Sahara back to France. The bombs had been detonated in Algeria back in the 1960s. These returning winds were a reminder that the environmental legacies of colonialism cannot be forgotten or contained; it also raised the more pertinent question of how do people live with the afterlife of toxic colonialism? 'And still, it remains' spends time with the residents of a village in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria who live surrounded by ancient rock art and the legacy of France's nuclear bombs. Exploring their migration to the area, faith, their way of life, colonialism and the nuclear bombs, the film asks what it means to live in such intimacy with toxic colonialism? What understanding is gained from this proximity? The feminist thinker bell hooks talks about a particular way of knowing that comes from experience - "it's a deep understanding that is often expressed through the body, as what they know has been deeply inscribed on it." How do people make sense of what happened to them? What are their ideas of justice? And finally, how do they find a way to carry on?
- Bleakness is the story of Youssra the owner of a clothing boutique and Adam consulting expert. living a normal life, Youssra and Adam start asking some existential questions about success, while planning a date at night they take a life changing decision.
- Algeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.
- Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
- In the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams, Her name is Malika.
- A simple case of a car accident in the city of Oran turns into a real criminal investigation led by Inspector Tahar and his sidekick apprentice.
- Inspector Tahar and his apprentice are invited by Mama Traki, a popular Tunisian heroine, to spend their vacation in Tunis. Before leaving Algiers, they stop at a tourist complex where a murder has just been committed. The investigation full of surprises and twists and turns will take them to Tunis where they will find Ommi Traki and his family.
- 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.
- A young man jumps from a cliff. Before leaving forever, his soul pays a visit to to his two impossible loves: a woman and the stage of a concert hall.
- Taking place in Algerian suburbia in 1994, the story revolves around Anya - a seven-year-old girl who blissfully experiences her childhood without being aware of the turmoil caused by the civil war engulfing her country. Her sole desire is for her father - a journalist away on an assignment - to come back in time for the Mouloud holiday. Nevertheless, the violence of the real world slowly encroaches upon her daily life, causing her childish innocence to waver.
- 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.
- Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we meet one such group, Rachid, Nasser and Imene who pay a smuggler, Hassan, to take them to Spain in his rickety boat. Along with a group of African and Arab migrants, they are risking all they have to cross the stormy Straits.
- A young disabled man named Moussa live in an oasis in the Algerian desert. His sister Zineb take care of him and protect him while working in dates factory to provide for both of them. In the desert, Moussa would like to grow a rose.
- Karima, a famous photographer who lived in Paris for several years, was forced to return to Algiers to attend the agony of the old patriarch against which she rebelled and was exiled. This forced return will awaken in her the scars and the ghosts of a repressed past. Once again, it is time to settle accounts. Nothing is more falsely serene than certain places she loved, more deceptive than the scents of Algiers.
- Mona, an 8-year-old Ivorian who fled the Ivory Coast, settled with her mother in Tipasa, an Algerian coastal town known for its Roman ruins 'Matares'. To pay the smuggler who will take it to Italy with his father, Mona sells flowers to tourists. Unfortunately, the Roman ruins of 'Matares' are the preserve of Said, a 10-year-old Algerian who also sells flowers. A feeling of hatred will spring up in the heart of the boy who will make war on this weird girl who speaks to the flowers, a 'disbeliever who does not believe in Allah but in Jesus and who steals the living bread of a Muslim.
- In a small village in rural Algeria, the "village idiot" is madly in love with a married woman. His voyeurism and antics bring shame on his father, who guarantees that his son will be married that same day, or his four wives will be repudiated.