Algeria Movies

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des...

Director Karim Moussaoui wonders what would come close to be called Opera in his home country, Algeria. Together with his crew, he travels to the...

This docu­men­tary traces the spring of 2004, the Abde­la­ziz Boute­flika re-elec­tion as President of the Alge­rian...

A teenager describes the painting he sees off-screen. He highlights the thoughtful nature of the person facing him. Two other young persons then...

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

Cheikh El-Hasnaoui is an Algerian singer who left his country in 1937 without ever setting foot there again. Between 1939 and 1968 he composed most...

On the train between Algiers and Constantine, Kamal crosses paths with a young girl. Between fleeting moments and shared moments, a friendship is...

A filmmaker travels with her mother across the Sahara in search of Tin Hinan, the queen of the Tuareg, and encounters a nomadic way of life that is...

In 2021, radioactive sand resulting from French nuclear bombs travelled in the winds all the way from the Algerian Sahara back to France. The bombs...

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...

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make a film on the country's...

A short experimental mockumentary that approaches a minor, everyday physical pain with excessive seriousness, blending medical imagery, archival...

Documentary tribute to the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez produced in 1977 consisting of archive images of the singer during his visit to Paris in...

Habiba Djahnine went to meet activists who continue to take action. To meet them, to capture them in the spaces where they live, work or fight. They...

Étienne Dinet, born March 28, 1861 in Paris, where he died on December 24, 1929, was a French painter and lithographer. Having lived much of...

Hady is chosen to work on a documentary about Saint Augustine. As he starts researching his life and philosophies that changed the Western world and...

Moussa, a young Franco-Algerian, returns to Algeria, but adapting to life in his country of origin proves difficult. Just as he is about to leave for...

The story follows Hadj Ahmed, a traditional Algerian father struggling with his son Jalali's drug addiction and the negative influences of his peers,...

Soula Bahri plays herself in Salah Issaad’s debut feature, a road movie about a young single mother rejected by her family for dishonouring...

An immersive documentary project about Algerian youth. Filmed at night inside a car in Algiers, the journey becomes a space for free expression. I...