1996년 알제리 산골 수도원. 그 곳에 신과 인간 사이에서 숭고한 신념을 지켜낸 7명의 수도사와 1명의 의사가 있었다. 그들은 의료지원에서 고민상담까지, 가난한 마을 사람들의 몸과 마음의 상처를 치유해 주며 종교를 뛰어넘는 사랑으로 마을 사람들과 평화롭게 지낸다. 하지만 이슬람근본주의자들에 의한 내전사태가 심화되면서 평화롭던 생활은 위기에 빠진다. 신을 영접하는 수도사로 신의 사랑과 믿음을 몸소 실천하려 하지만 그들 역시 인간이기에 생명을 위협하는 폭력이 두렵다. 이제 그들은 신을 따르기 위해 수도원에 남아야 할지 안정된 삶을 쫓아 떠나야 할지, 삶과 신념을 사이에 둔 중대한 선택의 순간을 맞이하게 되는데…
독립 전쟁이 한창이던 1954년 알제리. 목동들에게 불어를 가르치며 살고 있는 전직 군인 ‘다루’에게 어느 날 예기치 못한 명령이 내려진다. 사촌을 죽인 죄로 붙잡힌 ‘모하메드’를 팅기트로 인도해 재판 받게 하라는 것. 그를 데려가 죽이라는 것과 다름없는 명령을 도저히 따를 수 없는 ‘다루’와 자신은 반드시 팅기트에 가야만 한다는 ‘모하메드’. 결국 함께 길을 떠난 두 사람은 팅기트로 향하는 길에 알제리 독립군과 프랑스 정부군 간의 교전에 인질로 잡히고 마는데…
프랑스령인 카스바에서 은둔하고 있는 도둑들의 우두머리인 페페는 그 지역 사람들에게 두터운 신망을 받고 있다. 경찰은 도둑질을 하고 카스바로 숨어드는 그의 일당들을 잡아보려고 하지만 매번 페페를 도와주는 주민들에 의해 실패한다. 그러던 어느 날 밤, 페페는 경찰의 기습을 피해 달아나다가 마침 그곳을 여행 중이던 미모의 여자와 마주치게 되는데...
DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
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...
Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.
Seen right through the sandstorms that rack the lives of a tribe living on a desert oasis, is a subtle and not-so-subtle mistreatment of the female members of the tribe - tribal chiefs have the right to be the first to deflower virgins, and single or widowed mothers must walk a narrow line of behavior restrictions that do not apply to their male counterparts. Both genders, however, fight the brunt of the harsh desert winds together.
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.
A young French woman who inherits her uncle's property in Algeria finds herself schemed against by her envious cousins, and romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man who works for his uncle on a neighbouring farm.
Alberto Spadolini, filmmaker and choreographer, dances to traditional Andalusian music. He pays tribute to the gypsy culture.
Algeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.
Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.
Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina.
A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.
Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert Camus had an extraordinary destiny. Child of the poor districts of Algiers, tuberculosis patient, orphan of father, son of an illiterate and deaf mother, he tore himself away from his condition thanks to his teacher. French from Algeria, he never ceased to fight for equality with the Arabs and the Kabyle, while fearing the Independence of the FLN. Founded on restored and colorized archives, and first-hand accounts, this documentary attempts to paint the portrait of Camus as he was.
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.
