Ettarfa

In the furnace of Algiers, the camera follows and accompanies Ibrahim, Adam, and Ismael, originally from sub-Saharan Africa, in an irregular situation...

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his...

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 individua...

Ikach, is a farce in two acts in popular Arabic, written by André Sarrouy and adapted and directed by himself. A critique of marriage in colonial Alge...

The film, shot in 1938, is part of a series entitled “The true face of Algeria”. The film highlights the proximity of Algiers to Paris and promotes ai...

On August 5, 1928, after 2 hours and 32 minutes of racing, the 71st rooster wearing the bib entered the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam. Ahmed El Ouafi B...

Born on March 25, 1840, Gustave Guillaumet discovered Algeria by chance when he was about to embark for Italy. Over the course of his ten or eleven tr...

A musical journey with stories of Rai music, starting with the Algerian city of Oran, where Rai music originated, the shift that Cheikha Rimitti made...

At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare),in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe),the government of Ian Smith hanged three black revoluti...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966),released in 2004. An in-depth look at t...

Ahmed Malek’s name might have been forgotten by his fellow Algerians but his timeless tunes certainly haven’t. Called the Ennio Morricone of Algiers,...