Biyouna
Nacimiento : 1952-09-13, Alger, Algeria
Zohra
Cuando un amigo suyo de la infancia es asesinado en Miami, Baaba se muda a la ciudad y forma equipo con un policía local para dar con los criminales responsables de la muerte de su amigo.
Fatima
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.
Rada
Sira, a former refugee, works as a translator for OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Stateless Persons and Migrants). She unscrupulously fleeces her clients, selling them fictions she creates to convince the authorities.
The Mother
Aïcha
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.
Yasmina
La grand-mère d'Amelle
Amelle y Noom son dos jóvenes treinta añeros totalmente opuestos que el destino se encargará de unir. Ambos, víctimas de decepciones en el amor, juraron que no volverían a enamorarse jamas. Entonces, ¿como es que cuando a pesar de todo esto, los polos opuestos se atraen? Un juego de seducción se establece a continuación, para nuestro deleite. Pero no todo es tan de color de rosa, familias, amigos, colegas participan, las guerras se declaran, peleas estallan.
Zohra
30-year-old Djemila, a single jurist, at last has her own apartment... a few steps away from her parents' place. A French woman of North African extraction, she does everything she can to hide her origins. Emma, her nutty and broke neighbor, struggles to raise her two children alone. Although these two women have nothing in common, a deep friendship forms between them because of their mutual love of music.
Djamila
Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen in love with the attractive young woman, Arnaud decides to pass himself off as an ordinary street guy named...Mohamed.
Biyouna
Bibi
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at the Bay of Algiers, Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear. The first events of the War of Independence have begun. The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside: swimming, dancing, flirting. But, little by little, the war becomes part of their daily life.
Biyouna
Vieux Fusil
En un pequeño pueblo de Oriente Medio, la tradición exige que las mujeres vayan a buscar agua, bajo un sol ardiente, a la fuente que nace en lo alto de una montaña. Leila, una joven casada, propone a las demás mujeres una huelga de sexo: no mantendrán relaciones sexuales hasta que los hombres colaboren con ellas en el transporte del agua hasta la aldea.
Biyouna
Rid of her rival Gloria, Aïcha will do everything to make her boss proud, with Ginette's help. Patrick presents her with a love ultimatum: their mothers must meet. And to top it off, things are getting worse in the neighborhood.
Eva Lopez
Biyouna
Lela
One morning Noureddine, who always considered himself a little boy, discovers that his mother Fatima lied to him for 11 years and, in fact, he is a girl.
Zineb Agha / Madame Aldjéria
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.
La mère de Wassila
Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identité algérienne, Mouloud fustige son refus de la France, pays qui les a vu grandir.
Fatima
An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.
Papicha
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...
Directed by Ghaouti Bendedouche.
Meriem
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.
Zainab
Malika
The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.