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- DirectorRamzi Ben SlimanStarsSamuel VincentAnamaria VartolomeiLubna AzabalMarwann's life in Paris during the Jasmine revolution and the fall of president/dictator Ben -Ali.
- DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsLubna AzabalRadivoje BukvicFaouzi BensaïdiTangier, beginning of autumn. Dounia Abdallah, Moroccan, and Dimitri Barbarossa, Franco-Serbian, are lovers. They work together at the construction of a luxurious villa for a Gibraltar based company. The excavation works reveal Christian graves from the 4th century, adorned by frescos. For Dounia and Dimitri, this discovery is a unique occasion to change their life course. But one of the construction worker disappears.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsSoria ZeroualZita HanrotKenza Noah AïcheAn immigrant mother realizes that her daughters become estranged.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsIbrahim AhmedAbel JafriToulou KikiA cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- 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...
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsRachid El OualiFaouzi BensaïdiAmal ChabliA young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuilds her relationship with her husband on a trip to the south of Morocco.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsMounïm KbabMustapha HansaliHicham MoussouneA group of children living on the street leave their gang, prompting retribution from the gang's leader. After one of the children dies, the rest try to come up with the resources to give their friend a proper burial.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsAbdelhakim RachidAbdelilah RachidHamza SouidekA fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsHabib BoufaresHafsia HerziFarida BenkhetacheIn southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
- DirectorBruce NeibaurStarsChems-Eddine ZinouneHassam GhancyEssam EdrissOne of the greatest travellers in human history, twenty-one-year-old law student Ibn Battutah set out alone to Mecca from Tangiers in 1325 and returned to Morocco almost thirty years later. This is the story of his first pilgrimage, book-ended with never-before seen documentary footage of the contemporary Hajj. Filmed for initial presentation in IMAX and other giant screen cinemas.
- DirectorNour Eddine LakhmariStarsYounes BouabMohamed MajdSonia OkachaZero is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca, surrounded by loss and futility, and the corruption of everyone around him.
- DirectorSherif ElbendaryStarsAsser YassinNahed El SebaïSalwa Mohamed AliAli believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. Ali, his goat and his friend Ibrahim embark on a journey of friendship and self-discovery across Egypt to reverse the curse.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 DiabStarsNilli KarimHany AdelMuhammad El-SebaiSet entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power.
- DirectorTarik SalehStarsFares FaresMari MalekYasser Ali MaherA maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don't want the case solved.
- DirectorSofia DjamaStarsSami BouajilaNadia KaciFaouzi BensaïdiFollows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.
- DirectorKahlil Dreyfus ZaarourStarsVanisa AyyoobJulia KassarKahlil Dreyfus ZaarourWhen fifteen-year-old Nour is forced to marry Maurice whom she despises, her carefree summer days morph into claustrophobic confinement and household chores. Nour mourns her lost childhood and scattered dreams.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsSalima AbadaMohamed Seghir BendaoudAmine KabbesThis documentary interweaves in-person interviews with a dramatized road trip as a pair of journalists travel throughout Algeria asking their fellow citizens about the meaning of paradise that promises men 72 virgins after death.
- DirectorMehdi Ben AttiaStarsHafsia HerziRaouf Ben AmorHaythem AchourFollowing the death of her husband in an accident, young Amel tries to find some consolation in photography. She takes photos of strangers from the street, looking at men as they tend to do towards women.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsShaïn BoumedineOphélie BauSalim KechioucheA teen boy comes back to his hometown during summer vacation in 1994, searching for love.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsMaryam TouzaniArieh WorthalterAmine EnnajiThe streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one.
- DirectorHakim BelabbesStarsHamza ArtsAbdullah BakhshHamid BelabbesMbarek is a farmer who ekes out a living on a small plot of land in a rural Moroccan village. He lives there with his pregnant wife Ayda, his sick father and his teen-aged son Ayoub who has Down's Syndrome. This small piece of land is the family's sole source of income, and the family is devastated when the village is hit by a severe drought. Mbarek begins to dig a well in the desperate hope of finding a new source of water, when an official letter arrives threatening the confiscation of his land.
- DirectorPhilippe Van LeeuwStarsHiam AbbassDiamand Abou AbboudJuliette NavisA mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
- DirectorSahim Omar KalifaStarsMaaike NeuvilleFeyyaz DumanHalima IlterHavin, the young wife of Kurdish shepherd Zagros, is being accused of adultery. She flees with their daughter Rayhan from Kurdistan to Brussels. Zagros is convinced of her innocence, leaves his family to start a new life.
- DirectorNadir Dendoune
- 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.
- DirectorHassen FerhaniIn the largest slaughterhouse in Algiers, men live and work in closed to the throbbing rhythms of their tasks and their dreams. Hope, bitterness, love, paradise and hell, the football stories as of the Chaabi and Rai melodies that set their lives and their world.
- DirectorGaya JijiStarsManal IssaThuraya BaghdadiUla TabariUpon the Arabic Spring a young woman rents a room in the neighbor's brothel where she can dream about her sexual desires and identity.
- DirectorFaouzi BensaïdiStarsNadia KoundaDana AbedFaouzi BensaïdiAbdelkader is a watchman and Malika is a house maid. They were just married and are madly in love. Despite money problems, they dream of moving in and starting their love life together. One day Abdelkader is going to live an incident of great violence, a humiliating experience that will ruin their destiny.
- DirectorMeryem Benm'Barek-AloïsiStarsMaha AlemiLubna AzabalSarah PerlesSofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Following a denial of pregnancy, she finds herself illegally giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital leaves her 24h to provide the papers of the father of the child before alerting the authorities .
- DirectorYasmina AdiIn response to the call of the Front de libération nationale (F.L.N., the National Liberation Front), thousands of Algerians from Paris and its surroundings march on October 17, 1961, to protest against the curfew imposed on them. This peaceful demonstration will be violently put down by the police. 50 years on, the filmmaker sheds light on this still taboo subject. Blending testimony and unseen archive footage, history and memory, past and present, the film relates the different stages in these events and reveals the strategy and methods applied at the highest level of the French state: manipulation of public opinion, the systematic challenge of every accusation, the censoring of information in order to prevent investigation...
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMohamed DhrifMouna MejriZakaria Ben AyyedA Tunisian middle class couple with high hopes for the future of their only son discover he's left to join ISIS in Syria.
- DirectorAlaeddine SlimStarsAbdullah MiniawySouhir Ben AmaraKhaled BenaissaS is a young soldier in the southern desert of Tunisia. When he learns about his mother's death, he obtains a week's leave and goes back home. He will never return to the camp.
- DirectorAlaeddine SlimStarsJahwar SoudaniFethi AkkariJihed FourtiN is coming from the desert to reach North Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. He steals a boat, but it soon sinks into the middle of the sea, then embarks in an imaginary surrealistic odyssey where he makes intense and fleeting encounters, and rediscovers his relationship with nature.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaThey are apprentice imams at the Paris Great Mosque. From now on, they are also required to train in secularism in conformity to the policy of modernization of Islam in France. Yet, among all the universities, only one volunteered to give this training: the Catholic Institute of Paris. This film gives an account of this apprenticeship.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMohamed Slim BouchihaJallel DridiMoufida DridiTunisia, before the revolution. A man on a motorbike, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets of Tunis slashing women's buttocks. They call him The Challat, aka "The Blade", and the mere mention of his name provokes fascination and terror. Is he a lone criminal, an urban legend, or could he be the creation of a political group or religious fanatics? 10 years later, in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, a stubborn young female director sets out on an investigation to unravel the mystery and discover the true Challat of Tunis...
- DirectorAlaa Eddine AljemStarsYounes BouabSalah Ben SalehBouchaib SemmakA criminal returns to the fake grave where he buried his loot years before and discovers that it has become the shrine of an unknown saint and a thriving little village.
- DirectorMaryam TouzaniStarsLubna AzabalNisrin ErradiDouae BelkhaoudaAbla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman, knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever.
- DirectorJean-Bernard MarlinStarsDylan RobertKenza FortasIdir AzougliZachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. This is where he meets Shéhérazade.
- 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.
- DirectorAmin Sidi-BoumédièneStarsSlimane BenouariLyès SalemAzouz AbdelkaderAlgeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, cross the desert in search of Abu Leila, a dangerous terrorist.
- DirectorZabou BreitmanEléa Gobbé-MévellecStarsSimon AbkarianHiam AbbassSwann ArlaudSummer 1998, Kabul in ruins is occupied by the Taliban. In love despite the daily violence and misery, Mohsen and Zunaira want to believe in the future. But a senseless act by Mohsen will upset their lives forever.
- DirectorMehdi BarsaouiStarsSami BouajilaNajla Ben AbdallahYoussef Khemiri11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.
- DirectorAbdel Raouf DafriStarsJohan HeldenberghLinh-Dan PhamLyna KhoudriWhile he is only the shadow of the warrior he was in Indochina, Colonel Paul Andreas Breitner is forced to cross a Algeria at war, in search of his former senior officer: Colonel Simon Delignières, missing in the Aurès Nemencha, a real powder keg in the hands of the rebels.
- DirectorJocelyne Saab
- DirectorMed HondoThis documentary champions the Sahrawi independence movement in Western Sahara.
- 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.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsAnas BasbousiIsmail AdouabZineb BoujemaaAnas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their passion and express themselves through hip hop culture.
- DirectorMounia MeddourStarsLyna KhoudriRachida BrakniNadia KaciA young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.
- DirectorLina SoualemStarsHiam AbbassUm AliNemat AbbassYears after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
- DirectorLina SoualemStarsAïcha SoualemMabrouk SoualemZinedine SoualemAfter 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.