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- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsSamy NaceriRoschdy ZemSami BouajilaDuring World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsJamel DebbouzeRoschdy ZemSami BouajilaA drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsBrenda BlethynSotigui KouyatéSami BouajilaTwo strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsÉtienne GuichardRégis BouquetFrancesco De RosaDance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsForest WhitakerBrenda BlethynLuis GuzmánA Muslim ex-con forms a friendship with his parole officer.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanAdolfo CeliSandro DoriAfter saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiFarid ShawqiYehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
- DirectorMounia MeddourStarsLyna KhoudriShirine BoutellaHilda Amira DouaoudaIn 1997 Algiers, terrorists wanting an archaic Islamic state are everywhere. They oppress women, determined to control their bodies, clothing, and public space. Young student Nedjma is passionate about creating a fashion show.
- DirectorRayhana ObermeyerStarsHiam AbbassFadila BelkeblaNadia KaciFatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for Fatima in particular. Already, while walking to her place of work, she is the distant witness of a terrorist attack. At the hammam, Fatima should feel better, but the atmosphere proves electric in her small enclosed world, she has great difficulty in maintaining order. All the more as Meriem, a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl comes to take shelter at the hammam. And as irate brother, Mohamed, is after her to cleanse his honor in blood.
- DirectorYamina BenguiguiStarsFejria DelibaRabia MokeddemAmina AnnabiZouina is a woman who is torn from her home in Algeria. With her 3 children and her mother-in-law, she rejoins her husband in a foreign, unaccommodating land.
- DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsLubna AzabalBiyounaNadia KaciThis movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsMichel CrémadèsJacques GamblinMickaël BatretThe first man is an adaptation of the unfinished autobiographical novel "Le Premier Homme" by the french writer Albert Camus. It tells the story of Jacques Cormery and his childhood in Algeria.
- 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
- DirectorOusmane SembeneThierno Faty SowStarsSidiki BakabaHamed CamaraIsmaila CisséIn this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
- DirectorLotfi BouchouchiStarsNadia KaciLaurent MaurelLayla MetssitaneSet during the Algerian War of Independence. In the film, the French army surrounds a southern Algerian village where they believe an enemy is being hidden and force the inhabitants to either confront the issue or die of thirst.
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsSotigui KouyatéSharon HopeRoschdy ZemAfter many years of having worked as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum, Alloune decides to go to America in search of his ancestors. They were taken away from his village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World.
- DirectorNajwa NajjarStarsKal NagaSouad MassiSuhail HaddadA father with a dangerous secret searches for his daughter.
- DirectorLyès SalemStarsLyès SalemSarah ReguiegRym TakouchtMounir 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.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsSalah QabilAli El SherifMahmoud Al MelejiSet shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
- DirectorYamina BachirStarsIbtissem DjouadiBahia RachediRachida MessaoudèneA look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsGad ElmalehMessaoud HattauMagaly BerdySalut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.
- DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsBiyounaNadia KaciManel TouatiWhen it comes to surviving in today's Algeria, no scam is too daunting for the woman who has adopted her country's name. If they're pretty and lacking in principles, her recruits can make a career for themselves. The latest of these, Paloma, is quite a hit, especially with Riyad, Madame Aldjeria's son. But the purchase of Caracalla Springs, the dream that should allow Aldjeria's clan to start a new life, proves to be one scam too many.
- DirectorJean-Marc MinéoStarsZakaria RamdaneSmaïnLorie PesterAn Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
- DirectorKarim MoussaouiStarsMohamed DjouhriHania AmarHassan KechacheAlgeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings.
- DirectorGiovanni ZelkoStarsBen YoucefCandice CokeHarry LennixA sleeper cell terrorist travels to America and hides in plain sight as an engineering student. As he waits for the rest of his terrorist cell to join him for a deadly mission, he falls in love which jeopardizes his beliefs and the mission
- DirectorSofia DjamaStarsSami BouajilaNadia KaciFaouzi BensaïdiFollows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsNadia KaciMohamed OurdacheHassan AbidouFollows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
- DirectorMohamed OukassiStarsAthmane AriouetSalah AougroutLakhder BoukhersMakhlouf Bombardier, decides to be elected mayor of a dechra (village). So he surrounds himself with his partners to organize a great campaign for his election. Bombardier became the mayor of the village and is organizing an international film festival to compete at the Carthage festival.
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsMohamed Faouzi Ali CherifThomas MilletTolga CayirA pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.
- DirectorLyès SalemStarsLyès SalemKhaled BenaïssaDjemel BarekDuring 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.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsMeriem SerbahAbel JafriRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheA peine sorti de prison, Kamel (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche) est expulsé vers son pays d'origine, l'Algérie. Cet exil forcé le contraint à observer avec lucidité un pays en pleine effervescence, tiraillé entre un désir de modernité et le poids de traditions ancestrales.
- DirectorAmin Sidi-BoumédièneStarsSlimane BenouariLyès SalemAzouz AbdelkaderAlgeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, cross the desert in search of Abu Leila, a dangerous terrorist.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsNabil AsliAdila BendimeradKhaled BenaïssaThanks to the "civilian agreement" law, an Islamist is pardoned and reinstalled in society. He soon understands law doesn't erase the crimes he committed.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsSalim Ameur-ZaïmecheAbel JafriSylvain RoumeTalk of living wages and religious observances upsets the delicate accord between the boss of a run-down truck yard and his workers in this visually arresting take on the French-Algerian immigrant experience.
- DirectorAbdelkrim BahloulStarsCharles BerlingMehdi DehbiOuassini EmbarekJean Senac, a French settler in North Africa, poet and creator of radio programs, decided to stay in Algeria after the declaration of independence in 1962. Ten years later he is now under police surveillance.
- DirectorBourlem GuerdjouStarsRoschdy ZemFadila BelkeblaOmar BekhaledSet in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living In Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
- DirectorDjamila SahraouiStarsRachida BrakniFettouma Ousliha-BouamariZahir BouzerarSet amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsLamia BoussekineNabil AsliSamir El HakimSet 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.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsBoualem BenaniAziz DeggaFarida MestoulA somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
- 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.
- DirectorGaël MorelStarsNicolas CazaléAmira CasarMohamed MajdSamy (Nicolas Cazalé), a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather (Mohamed Majd) in Algeria. But he does not speak the local language, and everything is strange to him, even members of his family: Nadia (Amira Casar) his cousin, a pregnant widow; and Qu'Issam (Kheireddine Defdaf) another cousin, who was expelled from France, and hates everything French. Samy's grandfather lives in the memory of a piece of land that no longer produces any wealth. Samy will never give the reason for his presence, but the chaotic climate of the country will revive the chaos that is in him.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsAdlane DjemilLamia BezoiuiLeila TilmatineOmar, 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.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsSamy NaceriFaudelJulie GayetKamel and his younger brother live in Bab el Oued, a popular district of Algiers. Kamel is embittered and rather taciturn while jollier Bouzid escapes the drab reality of his life chatting on the Internet with girls from all over the world. Certain that none of them will ever accept he invites them all to visit him. To his amazement, a French woman called Laurence accepts his invitation...
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsYasmine BelmadiKarim BelkhadraJulien CourbeyBrahim attends the French/Algeria football game,and it's a disaster.
- DirectorTariq TeguiaStarsKader AffakIna Rose DjakouAhmed BenaïssaLiving almost as a recluse, the topographer Malek accepts a job in a region of western Algeria at the insistence of his friend Lakhdar. Malek arrives at the base camp previously used by a team, but decimated by fundamentalists. A young shepherd observes him from afar; several men, some armed, approach and question his being there. Having previously run from Islamist terrorism, these farmers decided to return to their village. At dusk, the local police arrive for a routine visit. After the police have left, Malek is invited by the villagers to a makeshift party. During the night a series of explosions are heard. At dawn, Malek begins the first topographical readings, surveys the area surrounding the base camp and measures distances. During the night, again his sleep is disturbed by powerful explosions. The next morning, Malek sees a crowd along the edges of the mined field. On his return to the base camp, he discovers a young woman hiding in a corner of the Saharan hut. She's an African woman and won't give her name. Lakhdar arrives at the site, to find that both she and Malek have disappeared. At first, the two runaways head north, towards the Moroccan frontier which is the route to reach the Spanish enclave of Mellila. But the young woman doesn't want to flee to Europe; she's exhausted and wants to return home. With her finger, she traces the itinerary on Malek's maps, an interminable diagonal towards the southeast, the route to Tchad - towards the desert, towards a point of mutual disappearance.
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsMourad BounaasNozha KhouadraPierre-Loup RajotDrama about a young Algerian man who studied in Paris, France. After school he returns to his native country - Algeria. But nobody wants to know him, meet him, nobody understands him nor his mother.
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsDaniel GuyantGilles ChitlaphoneJehan PagèsBased on a true story, after the US withdrawal and the fall of South Vietnam to the communist forces in 1975, many people are sent to reeducation camps. Several desperate boys in one of the camps begin planing their escape.
- DirectorJean-Louis BertuccelliStarsLeila ShennaAhmed KadriJean-Louis TrintignantIn an Algerian village, the workers of a salt mine go on strike because of low wages. The owner calls the army to control the men, but a young woman cuts off the water to force the troops to retreat.
- DirectorSalem BrahimiStarsAmazigh KatebRachida BrakniFarida SaboundjiAlgeria, the late 80s. Idols of the past, such as socialism, are staggering. New idols rush in: capitalism made in IMF, islamism made in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. For Nouredine there is only one idol: his mother. And her decision is final: Nouredine will marry Yasmina who is supposed to teach him happiness. Together they will discover the horror of a country staggering into kafka-like absurdity and is falling into barbarity and fanaticism.
- DirectorMichel DrachStarsMarie-José NatMohamed ChouikhBernadette LafontIn 1957, Elise Le Tellier, a young woman from Bordeaux, decides to join her brother Lucien, a revolutionary who has decided to become a worker instead of a notable. Lucien has secured a position for her and Elise in turn works on the assembly line of a car factory. There she meets and falls in love with Arezki, a young Algerian immigrant. The conflict between France and Algeria makes their life together very difficult, despite the deep love that binds them.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsRamzy BediaAmel Brahim-DjelloulSlimane DaziIn a country plunging into armed conflict, a doctor tries to do his duty against all odds, until the day his destiny is turned upside down.
- DirectorBenamar BakhtiStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiAthmane AriouetMahmoud AzizThe story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern Algeria. The film also tells about different stages of the resistance, especially about one of the uprisings of the Algerian people, namely "the battle of the sons of Sidi Sheikh Bouamama", in which French General Leuti was appointed to try to suppress and end this resistance.
- DirectorAmor HakkarStarsAya HamdiAmor HakkarTounes Ait Alifrom the Bari Balafon Film Festival 2008 program, director, Koblan Bonaventura Amissah: "The family of Mouloud, a peasant in the Algerian mountains, is overwhelmed by a tragic loss: their soldier son has been killed in an ambush. With stubborn patience, Mouloud sets off on a motor tricycle to Algiers to get his son's body. The journey is difficult and painful through the harsh landscape of the mountains and a thousand bureaucratic and administrative setbacks. When he returns home, the battle is not over. Mouloud now has to fight the sadness and give new meaning to his life and that of his wife, who has been cloistered in profound silence by her sorrow."
- DirectorDjamila SahraouiStarsDjamila SahraouiSamir YahiaAli ZarifUne petite maison abandonnée, isolée dans la campagne algérienne. Ouardia y a enterré son fils Tarik, militaire peut-être tué par son propre frère Ali, dirigeant dun maquis islamiste. Elle est surveillée par un des hommes dAli, amputé dun bras suite à une explosion. Dans cet univers crispé par la douleur et figé par la sécheresse, la vie va peu à peu reprendre ses droits. Grâce au jardin que Ouardia fera refleurir à force de courage, de travail et dobstination. Grâce au gardien, victime lui aussi, finalement adopté par Ouardia. Grâce surtout à larrivée entre eux de lenfant de Malia, une femme aimée des deux frères, morte en accouchant. Mais Ouardia nest pas au bout de ses épreuves. Ali, le fils maudit, revient, grièvement blessé
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsAdila BendimeradNassima BelmihoubAhcène BenzerrariOn the structure of the five daily prayers of the Muslim rite, the film tells us a day like any other in Algiers lived from various terraces of the buildings.
- DirectorTariq TeguiaStarsSamira KaddourRachid AmraniAhmed BenaïssaIn a time when Algeria has been consumed by warfare and strife for more than a decade, a man who longs to return to the peaceful streets of Rome takes his girlfriend on a desperate quest to procure the papers that will allow the pair to seek out a brighter future.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsMarie BrahimiKarim BouaicheNazim BoudjenahA young French-Algerian woman travels to Algeria in search for her fiance. Determined to find his whereabouts, she is facing political and religious obstacles in a country that is struggling with the aftermath of a civil war.
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsPhilippe NoiretRoger HaninCaroline CellierA policeman invents a Machiavellian plan to force a criminal to confess his misdeeds.
- DirectorAmar LaskriStarsHacène BenzerariMohamed Hadj SmaïnBrahim HadjadjA patrol of the National Liberation Army must convoy a French soldier taken prisoner to the Tunisian border.
- DirectorBenamar BakhtiStarsYahia BenmabroukAthmane AriouetWardia Hamtouchea story about a group of people trying to travel to Algiers but the problem is in the way of travel as all the buses that pass are completely filled and no one wants to take them. then everyone decides to find a taxi. The driver accepts to take them all and along the way many situations occur.
- DirectorBelkacem HadjadjStarsTarek Hadj AbdelhafidKhaled BenaïssaFarouk BoutadjineEl- Manara, is a brutally direct depiction of Algerian society during the rise of fundamentalist Islam, which was to give rise to civil war following the annulment of the 1991 elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won. It follows the life of Asma who now lives with her daughter in France, having, like many Algerians, fled the war.The film flashes back to Algiers where Asma, a university lecturer shares an apartment with her friends Ramadan, a doctor and Fawzi, a newspaper journalist. They attend the Manara festivities, celebrating Prophet Mohamed's anniversary. The event, a peaceful carnival with music and fireworks, is used as a backdrop to subsequent social transformations, and acts to give the viewer an idea of Muslim traditions in Algeria, which are placed in confrontation with the Wahabite ideology of the FIS. The three young people face obstacles to their friendship and carefree life as the traumas of the 1988 Algerian uprising and ensuing repression brings them face-to- face with their values. Beyond Algeria, the film provides keys to understand the fragility of democratic cultures in the region along with the mechanisms of disseminating fundamentalist Islamist ideas.
- DirectorMohamed ChouikhStarsHacen AbdouMessaouda AdamiShyraz AlianeAmin 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.
- DirectorMohamed ChouikhStarsDjillali Ain-TedelesYamina BachirMohamed BakiIn 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.
- DirectorAbdelkrim BahloulStarsSami AheddaBenyamina BahloulKrimo BouguetofIn 1962, a young woman lost everything during the war for independence in Algeria. A Frenchman who is leaving the country offers his former home to her and her six children. An unscrupulous government official is trying to take the home away from her.
- DirectorMed HondoStarsCyril AventurinFernand BersetRoland BertinThis vast musical fresco covers hundreds of years of history from enslavement to 20th-century immigration. Set on an enormous slave ship and boasts a dazzling array of brilliant choreography, wide-ranging musical styles and sharp satire.
- DirectorPaulo FilipeStarsSinde FilipeIdir BenebouicheAmel Malhan HanifiManuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be
- DirectorSaïd Ould KhelifaStarsImad BenchenniKhaled BenaïssaAbdelkader DjeriouAlgeria'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.
- DirectorNarimane MariStarsAdlane AïssaniAmir NourineBilal AzilWhile the French army is shooting at the OAS, children plunder the French army of its provisions and even of a war prisoner, condemned to eat a dish of beans. But the war catches up with the adventure and bloodies the beans.
- DirectorAmor HakkarStarsMarina VladyAmor HakkarSamir GuesmiThe meeting between two clandestine homosexuals and Iranian and a single woman
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsHafsia HerziSmaïnMourade ZeguendiIn a remote farm in the Maghreb, Hajj Achour is about to give his daughter Sultana of the cadet Laroubi. Everything goes wonderful, except for one detail: the carburetor R12 family, part of trousseau, is defective. After much procrastination, dowry exchange hands promise to deliver the room before consummation of marriage. In France, Kenza young scandal in his city. Activist of the association "Ni Ni Hens Subject ", it testifies to JT on TF1 gender inequality and the upsurge in virginity certificates. His brother Cherif, humiliated, calls his cousin Aziz arrange the marriage of his sister back home. Atallah, a rich poulterer, fond of Youth Blank is a ready party ... Chérif Kenza drug GHB diluted in water bottle holy water to deceive the pious Mabrouka which will be responsible for its oversight. This is without relying on the unpredictable effects of drugs. Kenza, veiled from head to feet found embedded in a Mercedes Bridal and crosses the wedding route Sultana. This is where the trouble begins.
- DirectorTariq TeguiaStarsWassim Mohamed AjawiFethi GharesSean GulletteIbn Battuta works as a journalist for an Algerian daily newspaper. While covering community clashes in Southern Algeria, he finds himself incidentally picking up the trail of long forgotten uprisings against the Abbasid Caliphate, back in 8th-9th century Iraq. For the purpose of his investigation he goes to Beirut, a city that used to embody the hopes and struggles of the Arab World...
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsMustapha El AnkaMalik Lakhdar-HaminaFawzi B. SaichiA small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved.
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsMustapha El AnkaQuardia HamtoucheMazouz Ould-AbderrahmaneOn the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they think of themselves as the heroes of American soap opera and movies, so JR, Sue Ellen, Rambo, Kojak, Spock and others take possession of bodies and minds, with many typical American culture elements. These heroes mix in a beautiful funny mess, with tradition and modernism, Islam and television, reality and fiction.
- DirectorTaieb LouhichiStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiTarik AkanFatma Ben SaïdaneSince childhood, Qays and Layla have been in love. Qays, being a poet, publicly sings of his love, crying it out joyously far and wide - just the sort of public proclamation which was strictly condemned at the time. Distraught yet fearless, Qays stubbornly proclaims with all the more vigor his love for Layla, who remains entrapped by her own clan.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsYasmine KhlatRaouf Ben AmorDalila RamesTunis in 1980, A family leaves the old city, the Medina of Tunis to settle down in one of the new populated cities on the outskirts of the capital.
- DirectorAbdelkrim BahloulStarsBruno CremerBrigitte FosseyLaure MarsacIn a posh family in the 16th district of Paris, a young teenager begins to speak Arabic overnight, the day before, she had seen on a tree overlooking the family garden, an escaped from the asylum Arab man.
- DirectorAzdine MellitiStarsAhmed ChebilAzdine MellitiMehdi SaffarA semi-autobiographical story, based on the life of director, in which a young boy is left home alone to watch over the family residence when his impoverished family emigrates to France. The boy discovers the joy of movies at a local cinema and begins to try and re-enact them.
- DirectorMohamed Slimane RiadStarsRouichedDoudja AbdounFarida AmroucheHassen, tired and worn out by the long years of post-independence, gets a taxi license as a former fighter, traveling through the streets of Algiers and experiencing the most incredible adventures.
- DirectorBrahim TsakiStarsMohamed ArbouzBoumediene BelasriCarine MattysTwo deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Algerian farmer. They meet and manage to communicate, transcending all the cultural barriers that separate them.
- DirectorYasmine ChouikhStarsDjillali BoudjemaaJamila ArresMohamed TakiretIn the remote cemetery of Sidi Boulekbour, Ali, an elderly gravedigger, meets 60-year-old widow Johar, who is visiting her sister's grave for the first time after the death of her husband. Johar wants her final resting place to be next to her sister, so she decides to organize her own funeral and asks Ali to help her. But preparations for the final journey go awry when Ali and Johar unexpectedly start to realize they have feelings for each other.
- DirectorFarouk BeloufaStarsYasmine KhlatYoussef SaiahLina TebbaraIn 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.
- DirectorFrançois GérardStarsFrançois GérardSamy NaceriMarie VincentA reluctant anti-hero seeks redemption from his journey of hate.
- DirectorAssia DjebarReturning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war, Lila is obsessed by memories of the war for independence that defined her childhood. In dialogue with other Algerian women, she reflects on the differences between her life and theirs.
- DirectorMostefa DjadjamStarsLou DanteClarisse LuamboOna Lu YenkeSeven Africans, one woman and six men, decide to enter Europe clandestinely to start a new life. Together, they face dangers and obstacles, but as they get closer to Tangiers, the last stop before they reach Spain and "liberty", their inter-group solidarity starts to fall apart.
- DirectorAbdelkrim BahloulStarsAbdellatif KechicheChafia BoudraaKrimo BouguetofHamou left his native Algeria to make his fortune in Paris. Unfortunately, this is only a chimerical dream because he has difficulty living on expedients in the Barbes district.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsDjamel AllamSami AllemFares Ben HachaniThe film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with his comrades to explain the idea of the armed revolution in which he led in Aures region in 1954. The film depicts how Ben Bouleid traveled to a number of Arab countries Disguised to bring arms to Algeria for the revolution and how the French colonial forces arrested him in the Tunisian-Libyan border, and from there to Algeria to be sentenced to death.
- 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 Lakhdar-HaminaStarsVéronique JannotMerwan Lakhdar-HaminaMichel BoujenahMademoiselle Boyer, teacher, arrives from mainland France. She triggers passions of love and hatred, and will eventually leave, leaving in the bruised heart of her pupil, little Mouloud, a wound that is forever indelible.
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsYves NeffFatiha FawziHubert DeschampsA family or Algerian origin comes back to Algeria after having lived in France for a long time. The children, born in France, have a hard time adapting to Algerian society, and the contrast between traditionalist mentalities and youth wanting to have fun clash, reaching havoc in the village.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsSamir BoitardNicolas BridetMarwan Faresset in the Algerian War. A determined French commander, who believes Algeria belongs to France, must deal with a soldier who rebels when asked to execute an Algerian freedom fighter, The finale is set in the blistering desert as the soldier seeks to escape.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsNadjib OulebsirAdila BendimeradNabil AsliAfter 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.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsAbdelatif BenahmedHacène BenzerariAli DamicheAlgerian desert drama becomes a seesaw of love and death when two young jihadists meet to bomb an oil refinery.
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsSaïd AmadisMagid BoualiMarianne CaronVanished during the Algerian war, a young man returns to his village, much later, once independence has been acquired, as a representative of power and with this enigmatic formula: "You must know that the Revolution did not forget you".
- DirectorMalik Lakhdar-HaminaStarsMalik Lakhdar-HaminaNina KoritzMerwan Lakhdar-HaminaThe story of a family in the instability and violence that shook Algeria during the riots of October 1988 in the midst of the rise of fundamentalism and intolerance, disappointments and prohibitions, corruption, nepotism and abuse of power. On October 5, 1988, young Algerians occupied the streets... Afterwards, Algeria would plunge into the chaos of the Black Decade which would last more than ten years and leave more than 150,000 dead.
- DirectorOkacha TouitaStarsMiloud KhetibAzzedine BouraghdaBoualem BenaniIn the civil war that tears apart Algeria in the 1990s, police chief Brahim Llob hunts down Islamists extremists on a daily basis. Having become the favorite target for them, it is with fear that he goes every morning to his office at the Central Commissariat of Algiers. Annoying for the power in place, preparing to publish a whistle-blower book, Morituri, Llob is obliged to take early retirement.
- DirectorSerge Le PéronStarsJulien GangnetKhalid AyadiYoucef RajaiBrian and Nourredine are two lousy young offenders. Their flights have a motive: a film brought back from San Francisco where the father of Brian, singer of rock of the sixties, today in prison, made a tour.
- DirectorAmine-KaisStarsFatah BensalemJohn CrannPeter WelchIn a post 9-11 era, "Men's Affair" is a compelling story bridging the Middle East and America in an open dialog about the future. Algeria/USA. Drama/Action/Thriller.
- DirectorFatma Zohra ZamoumStarsNourdine AlaneLouiza HabaniNadjia Laaraf-DebbahiAlgiers, nowadays, Adel, 8 years old, has been taken to his grandparents Khadidja and Lounès because his parents Rachid and Safia have been quarreling. Adel was supposed to stay with his grandparents for one week end ; then another week begins and he misses school; then he feels that he has lived there for ever. Khadidja, a house wife, will try to introduce Adel to her everyday life in her apartment and Lounès, a retired man, will introduce him to the great world of animals. From day to day, the child and his grandmother hold on to the question "how big is your love" to help them get through this difficult period and grow closer to each other.