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- DirectorBelkacem Hadjadj
- DirectorBelkacem HadjadjStarsSaid AmraneSalem Aït-Ali-BelkacemMeriem BabesIn Algeria, in the Berber mountains, a father finds a dying young man in the snow. He takes him home where this young man starts a forbidden affair with his daughter.
- DirectorMohammed SoudaniThe Director Mohammed Soudani comes back to Algeria after 30 years with The photographer Michael von Graffenried to visit The Algerians he had photographed between 1991 and 2000 without them knowing it.
- DirectorMohamed FekraneStarsHabib KadiTony BaillargeatArsène MoscaIn Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS. He then took refuge in the Great Mosque of Paris. The imam decides to protect him by passing him off as a Muslim, as well as the other Jewish children that he manages to free with the help of the resistance networks. The French militia and the Gestapo have suspicions... This fiction film is based on the true story of the rector of the Paris mosque, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, who saved several Jews from deportation during the Second World War.
- DirectorOriane Brun-MoschettiLeïla MoroucheStarsRené VautierA journey in Algeria, in the company of René Vautier, founding father of Algerian cinema.
- DirectorWilliam KleinStarsEldridge CleaverKathleen CleaverCleaver, on film as in life, is a complex mixture of profound political insight, socially crystallized ghetto cultural patterns and a multifaceted human personality.
- DirectorHassen FerhaniStarsMalikaSamir El HakimChawki AmariIn 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.
- DirectorDjamel KelfaouiStarsHasniKhaledMohamed KhelifatiRaï swept over Algeria in the early 1980s. A few years later, the leading figures of this musical movement: Cheb Khaled, Cheb Mami, Chaba Fadela set out to conquer France where they imposed themselves. Algeria then finds itself in an impasse of which the riots of 1988 will be the social echo; aspiring to a liberalization of morals, it suffocates under an ideological and moral yoke. For the first time, the raï, born in the territory of Oran, dared to express with force the misery of life, the aspirations of youth, but also the intoxication of the senses. Drawing from the source of their culture, young singers claim to be the heirs of the chioukhs, these artists of the beginning of the century who sang the classic texts of Bedoui and popular Arab-Andalusian poetry, in order to affirm the expression of the Arabic language to provide the cultural weapons of the nascent Algerian nationalism. With the death of Cheb Hasni, with the threats hanging over the artists and forcing them into exile, the terrorists think they have triumphed, but raï sets out to conquer the world, allowing millions of people to better understand Algeria. , an Algeria bruised and more creative than ever. Algeria, El Djazaïr, in love with freedom has given the world forever the raï as a heritage.
- DirectorDjamel KelfaouiStarsHasniDjamel KelfaouiThis 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.
- DirectorDjamel OuahabA documentary about the controversial and secret French nuclear testings in Algeria.
- DirectorMustapha KatebStarsAllel El MouhibRouichedLarbi ZekkalEl-Ghoula, denounces opportunism, corruption and criticizes the immobility of certain political leaders of the time and their ruinous management, with the intention of bringing about change. This social satire, inspired by letters spoken in the press of the time, tells the story of a corrupt official. It is a play depicting the difficulties encountered in the application of agricultural self-management. She laid bare the problems of managing the abuses of the conspiracies carried out against the agricultural workers he exploits on a daily basis. She speaks and stages the difficulties encountered in the application of agricultural self-management. El-Ghoula (The Vampire), tells the story of a manager, a real bloodsucker, who lives at the expense of the agricultural workers of an agricultural cooperative, a corrupt person... Instead of solving problems, this manager uses the hollow speeches and "revolutionary" slogans, to galvanize them and encourage them to continue the work. The opportunistic manager transforms the work of the fellahs into chaotic bureaucratic procedures, which negatively affect the income of the institution. Instead of exploiting every opportunity to achieve public interest goals, he does so for personal gain. Through the clumsy game of political leaders, notorious opportunists, the play denounces the mismanagement of public property, and points the finger at this kind of deviation.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsYorgo VoyagisMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaLeila ShennaA 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
- DirectorMoussa HaddadStarsHadj AbderrahmaneYahia BenmabroukHattab Bel AliInspector 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.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsKeltoumMohamed ChouikhHassan El-HassaniA 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.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsMustapha KatebRouichedMahieddine BachtarziAn 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.
- DirectorKaddour Brahim ZakariaStarsHadj AbderrahmaneYahia BenmabroukZoubida Ben BahiA 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.
- DirectorMohamed Slimane RiadStarsBernard FressonJacques SpiesserRaymond BussièresIn a foreign country, terrorists blow up the Arab consulate. A journalist discovers a conspiracy headed by a powerful businessman.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsBoualem BenaniAziz DeggaFarida MestoulA somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
- DirectorMohamed Lamine MerbahStarsAthmane AriouetHassan El-HassaniKeltoumIn 1880, it was decided that the Algerian peasants of the Ouarsenis mountains would be dispossessed of their land in favor of French settlers. Two methods were used to achieve this end, either outright force or a roundabout way, forcing the fellahs to pay fines too high to be paid. The uprooted then had to leave for the cities, swelling the mass of proletarians in the shantytowns.