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Mariner of the Mountains

Using his personal background, Brazilian Karim Aïnous invites the audience to follow/discover an incredible journey through space and time, with an original and usually unknown prism/aspect : The strong bound between Algeria and Brazil, two countries with political and revolutionary strikes that mould their evolution.

Abou Leila

Algeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two friends from childhood, travel through the desert looking for Abou Leila, a dangerous terrorist on the run. Their quest seems absurd, given that the Sahara has not been affected by the wave of attacks. Lofti has only one priority : to keep S. as far from the capital as possible, knowing his friend is too fragile to face more bloodshed. But the closest they get into the desert, the more they will be confronted with their own violence.

Sweet Mountain Christmas

Papicha

Nefta Football Club

In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.

The Blessed

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.

I Still Hide to Smoke

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Outside The Law

In den 1920er Jahren wird die Familie der Brüder Said, Messaoud und Abdelkader aus ihrem Heimatdorf im französisch besetzten Algerien nach Paris vertrieben. Said gewöhnt sich dort an das Leben auf der Straße und macht Halbweltkarriere, derweil Messaoud als Soldat in den Indochinakrieg zieht. Was er dort sieht, erinnert ihn an Erlebtes, nach seiner Rückkehr schließt er sich der Untergrundbewegung FNL an. Die FNL organisiert Widerstand sowohl in Algerien als auch in Frankreich, und Abdelkader ...

Tage des Ruhms

1943. In Europa tobt der 2. Weltkrieg. Vier junge Algerier ziehen in den Krieg um Frankreich von der Besatzung durch die Nazis zu befreien. Zusammen mit über 200.000 Kolonial-Soldaten riskieren sie ihr Leben für ein Land, das sie nie gesehen haben. Die epische Reise führt Messaoud, Said, Abdelkader und Yassir von Afrika nach Italien, wo sie in den verlustreichen Schlachten von Monte Cassino ihre Feuerprobe bestehen müssen. Im Rahmen der Operation Dragoon landen sie anschließend in der ...

Little Senegal

Passionné par l'histoire de son peuple, Alloune, un vieux guide du musée africain "La Maison des Esclaves" à Gorée, part en pèlerinage pour retrouver les descendants de ses ancêtres aux Etats-Unis. Cet émouvant voyage va le mener des côtes de Caroline du Sud au quartier de Harlem où vit la communauté africaine, Little Senegal. Alloune, animé par l'idée de réunir sa famille par delà les siècles et les frontières, remonte jusqu'à une lointaine cousine, Ida, qui ignore tout de son passé. Le ...

Chronicle of the Years of Fire

The beginings of the Algerian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a peasant.

Z

Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.

The Winds of the Aures

This black-and-white film – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – presents one of the most readily apparent, though subtle, transformations of the daily life of the people of Algeria brought about by the ordeal of French occupation and the war of liberation. With military repression in full force, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her house in the mountains when her only son is taken away by French soldiers soon after her husband is killed in a raid. One day, on seeing a dead ...

The Stranger

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

The Bakery Girl of Monceau

Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.