Movies: Maghreb

  • 1995
    Machaho

    Machaho (1995)

    Machaho

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    In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, buried under the snow. He takes him in and nurses him until he's recovered. The host seduces Arezki's daughter. She is pregnant. This is an unsupportabl...

    Machaho
  • 1971
    La Mission

    La Mission (1971)

    La Mission

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    An Algerian peasant (fellah), crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself, also enlisted in the Algerian resistance to flee the atrocities of harsh colonial persecution....

    La Mission
  • 1967
    The Way

    The Way (1967)

    The Way

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    The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military prisons both in France and Algeria. In addition to attempts at escape, this prison drama also includes pr...

    The Way
  • 1967
    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures (1967)

    The Winds of the Aures

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    Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swi...

    The Winds of the Aures
  • 1963
    A People on the March

    A People on the March (1963)

    A People on the March

    6.51963HD

    In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the A...

    A People on the March
  • 1970
    Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther

    Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther (1970)

    Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther

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    The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers....

    Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
  • 2007
    Algérie Tours Détours

    Algérie Tours Détours (2007)

    Algérie Tours Détours

    102007HD

    A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier, a militant filmmaker, considered "the dad" of Algerian cinema, set up the cine-pops. We recreate with him the device of itinerant projections and we...

    Algérie Tours Détours
  • 1983
    The Mill of M. Fabre

    The Mill of M. Fabre (1983)

    The Mill of M. Fabre

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    The story of the post-independence nationalization of the mill of Monsieur Fabre, an old man attached to the land of Algeria where he was born. In this small town in eastern Algeria, there was nothing else to nationalize and they were actively prepar...

    The Mill of M. Fabre
  • 1993
    لحن الأمل (Lahn El-Almel)

    لحن الأمل (Lahn El-Almel) (1993)

    لحن الأمل (Lahn El-Almel)

    8.51993HD

    Abderrahim is a mechanic and singer in his spare time. One day, he receives a car to repair, driven by a very beautiful girl. It's love at first sight. They want to get married and start a family, but the girl's parents do not view this love favorabl...

    لحن الأمل (Lahn El-Almel)
  • 2005
    Douar de Femmes

    Douar de Femmes (2005)

    Douar de Femmes

    102005HD

    At a dangerous time in Algeria, 'Douar de Femmes' is a story of ordinary women who manage to defend themselves in extraordinary situations. The film focuses on a small village that has been attacked more often by terrorists from the surrounding mount...

    Douar de Femmes
  • 2012
    El Gusto

    El Gusto (2012)

    El Gusto

    7.52012HD

    El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago, and recently reunited for an exceptional concert. These musicians share a passion they never lost: the soul of Algiers, Chaabi music....

    El Gusto
  • 1983
    Harvest of Steel

    Harvest of Steel (1983)

    Harvest of Steel

    101983HD

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    Harvest of Steel
  • 1974
    Le Remords

    Le Remords (1974)

    Le Remords

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    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....

    Le Remords
  • 2019
    L'Orientalisme

    L'Orientalisme (2019)

    L'Orientalisme

    102019HD

    Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th century, it marked the interest and curiosity of artists and writers for the countries of the West (the ...

    L'Orientalisme
  • 1961
    Yasmina

    Yasmina (1961)

    Yasmina

    101961HD

    "Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was killed in a bombing by the French colonial army of occupation. The family, after a long journey, heads t...

    Yasmina
  • 1968
    Le Grand Détour

    Le Grand Détour (1968)

    Le Grand Détour

    101968HD

    The young Amar, father of two children, lives on expedients and looks in vain for a job in Algiers. He decides to emigrate to France, and finds a job there, but quickly loses it after a roundup and custody for several days. Led by two shady Europeans...

    Le Grand Détour
  • 1992
    Rester là-bas

    Rester là-bas (1992)

    Rester là-bas

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    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 side of the Mediterranean "where the sea is saltier". If most of the pieds-noirs left Algeria in the...

    Rester là-bas
  • 1980
    Children of the Wind

    Children of the Wind (1980)

    Children of the Wind

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    Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness...

    Children of the Wind
  • 1987
    Gates of Silence

    Gates of Silence (1987)

    Gates of Silence

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    Directed by Amar Laskri....

    Gates of Silence
  • 1965
    The Night Is Afraid of the Sun

    The Night Is Afraid of the Sun (1965)

    The Night Is Afraid of the Sun

    101965HD

    Historical film in four scenes which retrace the returns, the progress and the outcome of the war of liberation in Algeria. The first painting, “The land was thirsty” describes aspects of injustice and colonial oppression. The second “The Paths to th...

    The Night Is Afraid of the Sun