Mohamed Fellag

GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his principles. As a matter of fact, he was one of El Che’s last companions. It was somewhere over there, in Bolivia, in 1967. At least, that’s what he tells everyone...

Adaptación de la novela de Yasmina Khadra, ambientada en los años 30. Younes sólo tiene nueve años cuando su padre se queda arruinado y decide dejar al niño a su hermano, un farmacéutico integrado en la comunidad occidental de Orán. Ahora, el nuevo nombre de Younes es Jonas, crece entre jóvenes colonos de los que se hace amigo inseparable. Descubrirá con ellos las alegrías de una existencia privilegiada que ni la segunda guerra mundial ni las convulsiones de un nacionalismo árabe en plena expansión pueden perturbar. Hasta el día en que llega a la ciudad Émilie, una joven fascinante que se convertirá en el objeto de deseo de todos ellos y que pondrá a prueba la complicidad fraternal de los cuatro amigos, divididos entre la lealtad, el egoísmo y el rencor que la guerra de la Independencia agrava.

En 1961, en plena guerra de Argelia...

Zarafa relata una historia inspirada en un hecho histórico. Maki es un niño de diez años que ha entablado amistad con Zarafa, una jirafa huérfana, ofrecida por el pachá de Egipto al rey de Francia Carlos X para que le ayude a liberar Alejandría de los invasores turcos. Maki acompaña a Zarafa en su periplo entre Alejandría y París cruzando el desierto, viajando en globo, navegando en un barco pirata, descubriendo la nieve en los Alpes, luchando contra los lobos, conociendo al rey de Francia y, a la postre, siendo perseguido y posteriormente hecho preso por un temible comerciante de esclavos. Sin embargo, Maki solo tiene una idea en la cabeza: llevar a Zarafa de vuelta a África.

Un maestro de primaria de origen argelino entra en contacto con un grupo de adolescentes de Montreal obsesionados por el misterio de la muerte.

Tras comerse un periquito, el gato de un rabino adquiere la capacidad de hablar, y no sólo eso, sino que se vuelve un estudioso de las creencias de su amo, criticándolas como sólo un gato podría hacerlo, y entablando una fuerte amistad con la hija del religioso.

Juliette, a mother of wealthy family and a little snobbish, has gradually developed a kind of generalized contempt against his fellows. One day a bunch of little naive thugs manages to remove it. Because it is often obnoxious with his entourage, his family decided not to pay anything for her release. Shocked, Ellie began to join her captors in order to concoct a revenge more expensive. The unsympathetic billionaire turns against her will in a sort of Robin embittered and vengeful wood. Soon, his family is forced to pay more attention to his kidnapping: worrying samples are taken by Juliette, free-spending ...

Les Barons ont une devise : "glander plus pour vivre plus". Chaque être humain naît avec un crédit de pas. Chaque pas effectué te rapproche de la mort. Nous, les Barons, on le sait dès le départ.

10-year-old Saïd, a child of Algerian immigrants, is talented, motivated and would like to be a good student. But the conditions at the collège he attends in the Parisian banlieue hardly give him a chance. And then he is drawn into the criminal machinations of his brother.

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.

An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.

In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she dragged her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, but ultimately lost her at nine to the Paris child authorities.

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other

On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they think of themselves as the heroes of American soap opera and movies, so JR, Sue Ellen, Rambo, Kojak, Spock and others take possession of bodies and minds, with many typical American culture elements. These heroes mix in a beautiful funny mess, with tradition and modernism, Islam and television, reality and fiction.

Directed by Moussa Haddad.

From 1978 to 1985, he participated in several theatrical productions, before returning to Algeria in 1985 to join the National Theatre of Algeria to play the principal role in Eduardo De Filippo's production of L'Art De la Comédie. In 1986, he played in Ray Bradbury's Le Costume Blanc Couleur Glace à la Noix De Coco and created Les Aventures De Tchop, his first one-man show. He acted in a number of movies and TV shows during the period of turbulence in Algeria during the late 80s and early 90s. In 1989 he wrote the play Cocktail Khorotov and SOS Labès in 1990. The Islamic Salvation Front won the federal elections in Algeria in 1991 and this sparked a long and bloody civil war. The artist wrote Un bateau pour l'Australie-Babor Australia in 1992.[2] In 1995, after a bomb explosion during one of his presentations, he moved first to Tunisia and then to France. There he found success on stage with his plays that confronted the social difficulties of France.

From 1978 to 1985, he participated in several theatrical productions, before returning to Algeria in 1985 to join the National Theatre of Algeria to play the principal role in Eduardo De Filippo's production of L'Art De la Comédie. In 1986, he played in Ray Bradbury's Le Costume Blanc Couleur Glace à la Noix De Coco and created Les Aventures De Tchop, his first one-man show. He acted in a number of movies and TV shows during the period of turbulence in Algeria during the late 80s and early 90s. In 1989 he wrote the play Cocktail Khorotov and SOS Labès in 1990. The Islamic Salvation Front won the federal elections in Algeria in 1991 and this sparked a long and bloody civil war. The artist wrote Un bateau pour l'Australie-Babor Australia in 1992.[2] In 1995, after a bomb explosion during one of his presentations, he moved first to Tunisia and then to France. There he found success on stage with his plays that confronted the social difficulties of France.

Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought about by the revolution. Tinted with historical symbolism, the film tells of the disaggregation of a feudal family when the father died.