North Africa Movies

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 interrupted...

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. Chi...

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...

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her b...

Composed of three parts, this montage film addresses all aspects relating to the role of women in Algerian society: their ambitions, the role of the S...

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...

Directed by Mohamed Chouikh.

Directed by Amar Laskri.

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

Directed by Rachid Benallal.

Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought about by the revolution. Tinted with hi...

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...

An Algerian peasant (fellah),crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself, a...