Algeria Movies

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges...

In Tamazight culture, "Twïza" symbolizes a gathering for sharing and mutual support. This is precisely what Thibault Dion's film explores...

A filmmaker travels with her mother across the Sahara in search of Tin Hinan, the queen of the Tuareg, and encounters a nomadic way of life that is...

The story of a terrifying woman named 'Lalla Zouina' (portrayed by Biyouna), who practices witchcraft and sorcery in her local community.

Grief, the price you pay for love

When her husband died Soumicha, mother of three, had to earn a living. She became the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria. This...

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make a film on the country's...

In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations.

In an extended panoramic view—an "audioscopy" of Algiers—the camera’s eye scrutinizes various buildings and city-center...

After Adam suggested to his friends Enzo, Achraf and Marwan that they investigate the presence of a monster living in the park where they were...

The film tells the story of a small village in Kabylia through the innocent eyes of a six-year-old child. His vision of the world, disguised by...

The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to...

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colonial administrators and Algerian...

Throughout the video, image, sound and language (spoken, sung or written – on street signs or in the subtitles) are combined, and re-combined,...

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

In Algerian Novel - chapter 2, French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain reinterprets Algerian Novel - chapter 1. The film’s nested...

Mokhtar earns his living as a puppeteer, aided by his son. Using his old van, he moves between the few schools scattered in the gloomy countryside.