Nadia Kaci

95-96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its diversitý and composition. Helped by her twin sister Fettouma, a cellist, and while she was about to conduct her very first concert, she created the Divertimento orchestra. The latter still exists and, at 44 years old, Zahia is now a conductor recognized worldwide.

Argelia, años 90. Nedjma es una estudiante universitaria que intenta que los acontecimientos de la guerra civil que empiezan a ocurrir a su alrededor no le impidan vivir una vida normal, salir de noche con su mejor amiga Wassila y vender vestidos hechos por ella en los baños de las discotecas. Mientras la sociedad se vuelve más conservadora, ella decide luchar por su libertad e independencia organizando con sus amigas un desfile de moda en la Universidad que desafía todas las normas establecidas.

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.

Zino, de 27 años, hijo de inmigrantes argelinos, acaba de perder a su madre en París. Hijo único, fue ésta quien lo crió desde que su padre Farid se fuera, hace más de 20 años. Zino cree, por lo que su madre le decía, que su padre los abandonó y decide buscarlo.

En el corazón del hamam, lejos de la mirada acusadora de los hombres, madres, amantes, vírgenes o exaltadas islamistas, confrontan sus risas, llantos, cóleras, Biblias y Coranes antes del silbido de un puñal y del silencio de Dios.

Women and children from a village in southern Algeria find themselves besieged by soldiers and can not get out the risk of dying. Gradually, these villagers are faced with thirst. At the point where soon arises for them the dilemma of choosing their death.

Atop 17 flights of stairs, Madame Aldjeria rules over a crew of beautiful young women with the help of faithful son Riyad and clever lawyer Djaffar. Madame Aldjeria can set up a lonely old man with companionship or destroy the reputation of whomever the client wants humiliated. But when Riyad grows attracted to a beautiful new girl, Paloma, and a potentially huge new project runs into trouble, Aldjeria could lose everything she's worked for.

A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a distinct new voice from a promising young director. Hattu soon reveals that Maite’s husband Vincent is in prison for an unspecified crime, and that she has promised to wait for him and attend to his laundry (if not his conjugal needs) during his incarceration. On one of her weekly visits, Maite meets Jean, an oddly inquisitive and boldly flirtatious prison warden, and soon the two commence a joyless affair. Seemingly smitten with Maite, Jean, in a gesture of kindness to his lover, eases up on her husband behind bars; the two become pals and even engage in some homoerotic shower talk. —Robert O’Shaughnessy

This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...

En un asilo para discapacitados cerca de Toulon, René es unánimemente detestado por todos. Con cincuenta años y afectado de miopatía, posee un carácter irascible y rebelde. Pero sus provocaciones no resisten el candor y la rectitud de Julie, una educadora especial novata. Él le confiesa que quiere hacer el amor con una mujer antes de que su enfermedad degenerativa lo atrape definitivamente. Entonces, Julie se va en busca de una de las prostitutas que trabajan en caravanas a lo largo de la Nacional 7.

Argel, 1993. Corren tiempos de toque de queda. En la casa de Madame Osmane, una antigua combatiente de la guerra de la Independencia, viven su hija, su nuera, su nieta, su criada y dos mujeres a las que ha alquilado una habitación. Madame Osmane está obsesionada con la respetabilidad e impone una férrea disciplina bajo su techo. Cuando su hija se enamora, el mundo de Madame Osmane, hasta entonces perfectamente controlado, empieza a desmoronarse.

Daniel Lefebvre es el director de la escuela infantil de un barrio marginal de un pueblo minero del norte de Francia, en el que el 30% de la población está en paro a causa de la crisis de la minería. Un día, la madre de una alumna llega borracha a la escuela, sufre un colapso y deja allí a su bebe y a su hija de cinco años. El director decide tomar cartas en el asunto y solicita la ayuda de la comunidad, pero lo único que conseguirá es que su labor docente sea cuestionada. (FILMAFFINITY)

Three well-educated North African women cope with sexual stereotyping in modern Tunisia. Amina a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets her old friend from school Aida.

In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable cultural identity. The story centers on four young men in their 20s: Farida, who tries to live according to family traditions; his rebellious sister Souad, who wants to be as Westernized as possible and works at a fast-food outlet; her ex-boyfriend, Jean Luc, who wants to be an immigrant lawyer; and his friend Moussa. The film is comprised of brief incidents from their lives.

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...

Marie es una jovencita, hija de una familia de clase obrera, que se enamora de Gérard, del que luego descubrirá que es un tipo sádico y retorcido. No mucho después de iniciar su relación, Gérard comienza a maltratarla física y psicológicamente. Marie intentará huir de él y emprenderá una aventura personal para recobrar el control de su cuerpo y de su espíritu.