North Africa Movies

The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill. Memories from childhood return. He also must...

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...

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...

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

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

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

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision: he will no longer talk about cinema....

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A modern couple seeks to find marital happiness in a context where Algerian society is taking the “first step” towards female...

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...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

Writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar explores Algerian history, the psychological impact of war, and post-colonial female identity in this 1979 classic...

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...

Travelogue released on December 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released in April of 1921. Written & produced by Burton Holmes.

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

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...