North Africa Movies

Chants d’Automne (Song of Autumn),is a story of daily life on a colonial farm, at the start of the war of liberation in Algeria, describing individua...

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to...

In 1895, young journalist Albertine Auclair arrives in the Kabylie during a family visit. The beauty of the region seduces her but she soon learns of...

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the auth...

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most viole...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966),released in 2004. An in-depth look at t...

Raï Story is a musical journey in search of the Raï legend, Cheikha Remitti, in Oran, Algeria, where the Raï musical tradition began. In 1923, the fir...

At the turn of 1990 in Algeria, in an end-of-era atmosphere marked by the victory of the Islamists in the municipal elections, then in the interrupted...

An Algerian peasant (fellah),crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself, a...

In the 1980s, Algeria experienced a tumultuous social context which reached its peak during the riots of October 88. This wave of protest, with youth...

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...

The daily life and tribulations of colorful residents in the millennial popular district of the Casbah of Algiers.

In 1970, Tahar, a young Tunisian, travels to France for the first time to help his older brother, who is wrongly accused of murder and incarcerated in...

When the British army looks set to defeat Mussolini’s Italian forces, Hitler sends reinforcements; the Afrika Korps led by General Rommel. The Desert...

The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood. Chi...

In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child...

Directed by Amar Laskri.

In Algeria, pottery is different from one region to another, the result of the various influences it has undergone throughout history. If the manufact...