Algeria Movies

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 dese...

What does smoking a cigarette mean if you stop smoking?

Mostaganem, 2019. In a few weeks, five teenage girls are found dead on the beach. The bodies all bear the same marks of violence. How to explain these...

A documentary short about immigrants who come to work in France.

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 f...

Short animation film.

When independence is declared in 1962, the minority communities of Jewish and European origin flee Algeria. Four people of Muslim ascendency searching...

CHRONICLES OF MY VILLAGE is the story of Bachir's childhood during the Algerian war of independence. The film considers how a child's innocence, curio...

A social story of a man who married a second wife, in addition to his first wife whom have a boy and a daughter with, the man brought the new wife in...

When her mother forbids her from biting her nails, Sarah has to abide by new rules she doesn't understand. By taking control of her actions and other...

A family drama set in the Algerian desert.

A journey through Algerian music, past and present, alongside a political look at Algerian society today. This documentary shows how music and musici...

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the representations of Algeria throughout the...

Sangai, a teenage girl living with her father in a village of inland Bhutan, is not happy with her father, who makes wooden phalluses, believed to hav...

A girl, born deaf and wishing to hear, travels through the four elements of nature: earth, air, fire and water. But when her wish is granted, and she...

A rich girl who inherited her uncle’s construction company falls in love with a young selfish gambler who has a has a lot of debts.

Sonam is arranged to marry his cousin sister, but he finds out that cross cousin marriage results to a disabled child. How would he tell his family ab...

This film from the heart of the desert shows the conflict between the Algerians and the Moroccans at El Aioun, and the Saharan resistance of the Polis...

A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier, a militant filmmaker, considered "the dad" of Al...