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- 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.
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsMohamed FellagSophie NélisseÉmilien NéronAt a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
- DirectorKarim DridiStarsSofian KhammesFoued NabbaOussama Abdul AalChouf: it means "look" in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss's right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence.
- DirectorDjamel BensalahStarsJulien CourbeySid Ahmed AgoumiDavid SaracinoJohnny Leclerc lives in a suburban city in the company of his friends, most of whom are 'beurs'. He behaves like a Muslim, does Ramadan and wears a djellaba. He is even persuaded to be called Abdelbachir
- DirectorDjamel BensalahStarsJamel DebbouzeStéphane Soo MongoLorànt DeutschYoussef, Christophe, Stéphane and Mike are four friends from Saint-Denis. Today: direction Biarritz for 3 weeks of vacation. It is the first time that they have left their city. The holidays will quickly turn to delirium.
- DirectorDjamel BensalahStarsBooderIssa DoumbiaSteve TranWhen the Paris police is criticized for being biased in promotions for lieutenants, ethnic Arab, African and Chinese cops are promoted. The trio gets a serial killer case.
- DirectorAgnieszka LukasiakAgnieszka Lukasiak travels to Algeria and falls in love with an Algerian man whose very traditional family disapproves of their relationship. The film follows Lukasiak's interactions with the family and documents the violent civil unrest in Algeria.
- DirectorJean-Pierre LledoA collection of memories recalling Algeria's war of independence.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsNadia KaciMohamed OurdacheHassan AbidouFollows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsBoualem BenaniAziz DeggaFarida GuenanecheA somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
- 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.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsRouichedTayeb Abou El HassanMahieddine BachtarziLiving in Algiers in 1956 is no bed of roses. Especially when you are a meek little fellow called Hassan who, to stay out of trouble, is all things to all people and whose only act of "bravery" is to (try to) rule his wife with a rod of iron. Alas for him not only does his wife show resistance but the cowardly little man happens to be mistaken for... a dangerous terrorist!
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsAbdelatif BenahmedHacène BenzerariAli DamicheAlgerian desert drama becomes a seesaw of love and death when two young jihadists meet to bomb an oil refinery.
- 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 AllouacheStarsGad ElmalehMessaoud HattauMagaly BerdySalut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.
- 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...
- 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 AllouacheStarsCatherine JacobSolal ForteAnthony SonigoThe writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algerie.In 1955 Louis is 15 years old and he lives with his grandmother Zoe.Zoe is friend with the president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab.One night looking at the Bay of Algiers Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear.The first events of the war of independence have began.The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside:swimming, dancing, flirting.But little by little the war becomes part of their daily life.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsJamel DebbouzeRoschdy ZemSami BouajilaA drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
- 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.
- DirectorFatima BelhadjStarsSalah AougroutKamel BouakkazChafia Boudraathe story of a mother of 5 daughters and one mentally ill son during the black decade of Algeria (1990-2000), struggling through life with the danger extremist terrorists.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAmar LaskriStarsHacène BenzerariMohamed Hadj SmaïnBrahim HadjadjA patrol of the National Liberation Army must convoy a French soldier taken prisoner to the Tunisian border.
- 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.
- DirectorKaddour Brahim ZakariaStarsHadj AbderrahmaneYahia BenmabroukZoubida Ben BahiA simple case of a car accident in the city of Oran turns into a real criminal investigation led by Inspector Tahar and his sidekick apprentice.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsMustapha KatebRouichedMahieddine BachtarziAn Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the guerrilla is active and the French military has to keep a close watch on the locals.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorZangroStarsLyès SalemDjemel BarekYamine DibIn a small mosque located in the south-west of France, a child's drawing representing a masked character is controversial: super hero or jihadist? Amine, Imam by profession, will have to manage the unmanageable...
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsYasmine BelmadiKarim BelkhadraJulien CourbeyBrahim attends the French/Algeria football game,and it's a disaster.
- 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.
- DirectorLyès SalemStarsLamia CherfouhZineb KortebiAntar ChedadiDriss, an Algerian emigrant who has settled down in France, is back to Algiers for his month's holiday. What joy it is to hug his relatives and friends, to get to know Nedjma, his cousin Amrane's promised wife and to rediscover the white beauty of his childhood town ! But, a dramatic news suddenly interferes. A fourteen-year-old girl has just been killed for refusing to wear the "hidjab". A spontaneous demonstration is organized, to which the women of the house decide to go. With one exception though : that of Nedjma banned from going by her future husband.
- 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.
- DirectorYann Arthus-BertrandYazid TiziStarsYann Arthus-BertrandJalil LespertFlying around Algeria, the north African country.
- DirectorTewfik FaresStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiCheikh NourredineMohamed ChouikhVery very very very good movie. Excellent music from « Georges Moustaki» Takes place before the independence Algerian war. Shows how people restart to fight after a 100 year of colonization And after the end of «emir Abdelkader».
- 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.
- DirectorYamina BachirStarsIbtissem DjouadiBahia RachediRachida MessaoudèneA look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsYoucef SehairiAhmed RezzakHassan KechacheThe film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian 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.
- DirectorBelkacem HadjadjStarsLaëtitia EïdoAssaad BouabMelha MammeriThis film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur''as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation.
- 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.
- DirectorAmar TribecheStarsAthmane AriouetBahia RachediOmar BeklizA 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 the same house with his first wife, which took all the rights, while the first remained suffering with her two children.
- DirectorAmor HakkarStarsNabil AsliAnya LouanchiZineb AhmidouAli, a taxi driver in Algeria, and his wife, Houria, are unable to have children. When he travels to another city to test his fertility, he is accused by Fatima, a pregnant woman, of being the father of her unborn child. When Houria leaves him, Ali can either reveal his infertility or live with his alleged infidelity.
- 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.
- DirectorDamien OunouriStarsNabil AsliMohamed Seghir BendaoudAdila BendimeradDuring a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is lynched to death by a group of young men, while swimming offshore. Nobody seems to witness her disappearing. Anxiety and fear grow among the family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly die.
- DirectorBahia AllouacheStarsNabil AsliAmina BeldjoudiMohamed Seghir BendaoudApril 2013, Algiers, Algeria. Djamel an independent filmmaker asks Yasmine his ex-wife to write a script based on the Algerian political current affairs. Instead of that, the young woman starts writing a loopy story and mischievously settles a score with him.
- DirectorAmin Sidi-BoumédièneStarsNabil AsliAida GhechoudHoussam HerzallahThree guys have a discussion sitting on the ground floor of their building. Their conversation is about their best friend's trip and a strange event that is meant to take place the next day. Upstairs, Fouad packs his bags. He still doesn't know whether he'll dare to say goodbye to them or not.
- DirectorYanis KoussimStarsSalima AbadaNabil AsliNadia KoussimInside an ordinary Algerian home, Yamina, Nabila and Imen are regularly beaten by their brother Tarek.
- DirectorFatma Zohra ZamoumStarsAdila BendimeradAbdelrahim BouarourLoubna BoucheloukhOne morning, everyone heads to the wedding hall for various reasons, including the street vendor, kitchen worker, singer, and others. They all have different motivations to attend Khaled and Kamilah's wedding.
- DirectorKarim MoussaouiStarsMehdi RamdaniSouhila MallemMohammed GhouliIn a suburb of Algiers, in the mid 90's. Jaber and Yamina are neighbors, but do not know each other. Within days, however, what was so far a dull and distant violence erupts before them, forever changing their destinies.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsKeltoumMohamed ChouikhHassan El-HassaniA story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of her son. The mother did not give up for the search of her son despite the difficulties and obstacles, and she went from one prison to another just to see her son one more time.
- 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.
- DirectorMustapha BadieStarsRouichedSid Ali KouiretChafia BoudraaHassan Terro is released from the prison of the French forces to lead them to Algerian rebels, because the authorities see him as an important man responsible for the revolution. Indeed, he is able to reach rebel leaders but he is a naive man who fails many tasks entrusted to him by the rebels.
- 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.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsSami AllemMustafa LaribiAhmed Rezzakthe story of the heroic path of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsNadir BenguedihHimoud BrahimiHadjaAn eighth daughter. In this Saharan village, what a disgrace for Amara to have no heir. Blinded by anger, he repudiates his wife. But Amara cannot bear that others know a happiness that has been denied to him.
- DirectorKarim TraïdiaStarsMalik BakhoucheFatma Ben SaïdaneMouni BouallamCHRONICLES OF MY VILLAGE is the story of Bachir's childhood during the Algerian war of independence. The film considers how a child's innocence, curiosity and dreams can play alongside the struggles of a country in search of its own identity.
- 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.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsMichel AuclairSid Ali KouiretJulien GuiomarDuring the Algerian war of independence, an important leader of the FLN (National Liberation Front) is arrested by the army, which uses the most violent methods to make prisoners talk. But one French officer has a crisis of conscience while witnessing the brutality of his own army.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- DirectorSid Ali MazifStarsNadia SamirAidaChafia Boudraathe story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- DirectorSaïd Ould KhelifaStarsAriane AscarideMiloud KhetibRym TakouchtMehdi is an algérien writer that fundamentalist violence has transformed into a potential target. How to live with fear when everything is fear. But also life. Facing Mehdi is Ania, an algerian-born Frenchwoman, the woman next door. She often appears at her window on the court. A disturbing vis-à-vis. Ania will unceasingly try to convert this man to the culture of life, to burning passion. By bringing him tea regularly, risking to often find the door closed...
- DirectorAli GhalemStarsIsmaChafia BoudraaMustapha KesdarliAt age 18, Fatiha divides her time between home and school. But when her parents decide to marry her to Hussein, her only a choice is to submit to their wishes.
- DirectorBachir DeraïsStarsLakhder BoukhersSid Ahmed AgoumiFatima HellilouA poor man rescues a rich man from burglars. as a way for thanking him The rich guy invite him and his family to come and live in his luxurious hotel. The poor family's life turns upside down in their new home.
- 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.
- DirectorMohamed Rachid BenhadjStarsBoubakeur BelaroussiDalila HelilouAthmane AriouetA young disabled man named Moussa live in an oasis in the Algerian desert. His sister Zineb take care of him and protect him while working in dates factory to provide for both of them. In the desert, Moussa would like to grow a rose.
- DirectorMohamed Rachid BenhadjStarsCherif AzrouAbdelbacet BenkhalifaZahir BouzerarA young musician, Moussa, dreams of becoming the Michael Jackson of Algiers. All he has to offer is his talent and energy, taking his crazy dream on the road with his small band, initially playing at weddings then posh bars and nightclubs. He becomes Algier's new star, but he will soon come face to face with a barbaric, totalitarian form of Islam hijacked by new officials who want to ban him from singing.
- DirectorMohamed Rachid BenhadjStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiAhmed BenaïssaAlessio BoniKarima, a famous photographer who lived in Paris for several years, was forced to return to Algiers to attend the agony of the old patriarch against which she rebelled and was exiled. This forced return will awaken in her the scars and the ghosts of a repressed past. Once again, it is time to settle accounts. Nothing is more falsely serene than certain places she loved, more deceptive than the scents of Algiers.
- DirectorMoussa HaddadStarsMouni BouallamKarim HamzaouiZakaria RamdaneThis is the story of two friends, Zine and Rayane, who cherish the dream of reaching the northern shore of the Mediterranean in search of a new Eldorado. For financial reasons, they do not parent together, and it is Zine who is the first to attempt the crossing to Spain. Rayane prefers to leave in search of the money necessary for his trip. Zine, whose business has failed, returns and tries to convince his friend not to carry out the adventure.
- 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...
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsLeïla BekhtiHafsia HerziHiam AbbassA comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.
- DirectorDavid DelrieuxStarsRyan Azzoug GaumontSmaïnFejria DelibaAn Algerian mother forces her daughter to pretend she's a boy after emigrating to France.
- DirectorGhaouti BendedoucheStarsBiyounaAida GhechoudLinda Yasmine
- DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsBiyounaCarmen MauraDjemel BarekIn Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.