MAGHREB THEMED MOVIES

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen thr...

1516, Legend has it that the king of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to libe...

Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmos...

While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and n...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first journey to Algeria. Acco...

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution...

Algeria from above is the first documentary made entirely from the sky on Algeria. Through the eye of the famous Yann Ar...

1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, fighting for independenc...

This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manag...

Inspector Tahar and his apprentice are invited by Mama Traki, a popular Tunisian heroine, to spend their vacation in Tun...

Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Alg...

In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir r...

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually...

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to en...

The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death....

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert land...

El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago, and recently reunit...

Writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar explores Algerian history, the psychological impact of war, and post-colonial female i...

"For more than ten years, Algeria has been living a slow war, a war without a front line but having caused more than 100...