Algérie Tours Détours (2007)

섹시함과 재치, 남자답고 당당한 카리스마에 의리까지, 어느 하나 부족하지 않은 최고의 남자 '자크 메스린(뱅상 카셀 분)'. 마음에 드는 여자를 단번에 꼬시는 것은 기본, 은행강도, 백만장자 납치극 등 자신이 원하기만 하면 세상이 주목하고 이슈가 되는 사건의 중심에 항상 그가 있다. 결국 최악의 죄수들을 수감하는 특수교도소에 투옥된 그는 이번에도 기회를 놓치지 않고 짜릿한 탈옥의 기회를 엿본다.

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…

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...

이상주의자인 젊은 장교 테리언은 프랑스로부터 독립하려는 알제리를 점령하기 위한 알제리 내전에 참가하라는 명령을 받는다. 자대에 배치된 테리언은 고참하사인 도낙의 조언과 도움으로 점점 전쟁에 적응해 나간다. 하지만 전쟁의 참혹함과 참상을 지켜보면서 테리언은 도덕적 가치에 혼란을 느끼고, 점점 이상과 현실의 괴리감 속에서 정체성의 혼돈을 겪으며 방황한다. 한편 테리언의 인간적인 면에 매료된 알제리 소년은 프랑스군이 점령군임에도 불구하고 알제리 반군에 대항하여 테리언을 도와 싸운다. 하지만 시간이 지나면서 광기 어린 전쟁머신으로 변해가는 테리언과 계속되는 고문 행위에 환멸을 느낀 소년은 테리언을 떠나 알제리 반군에 투항하는데…

Directed by Moussa Haddad.

The beginings of the Algerian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a peasant.

Using his personal background, Brazilian Karim Aïnous invites the audience to follow/discover an incredible journey through space and time, with an original and usually unknown prism/aspect : The strong bound between Algeria and Brazil, two countries with political and revolutionary strikes that mould their evolution.

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.

The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face inevitable conflict when their rival families discover their secret love. Taking refuge in a cave, they listen to the sounds of a senseless campaign of violence and murder, which is the culmination of the extremism that has long divided their two communities. Nominated for the Golden Leopard at the 1997 Locarno Film Festival.

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the Aurès-Nementchas are intended to be the basis of a dialogue between French and Algerians for peace in Algeria, by demonstrating the existence of an armed organization close to the people. Three versions of Algeria in Flames are produced: French, German and Arabic. From the end of the editing, the film circulates without any cuts throughout the world, except in France where the first screening takes place in the occupied Sorbonne in 1968. Certain images of the film have circulated and are found in films, in particular Algerian films. Because of the excitement caused by this film, he was forced to go into hiding for 25 months. After the declaration of independence, he founded the first Algerian Audiovisual Center.

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the Algerian War and of the ALN (National Liberation Army), and life during the reconstruction.

Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness

Directed by Ahmed Bedjaoui et al.

At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold rings to sell them and thus buy boats.

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk short visits the cities of Casablanca, Rabat, and Marrakesh in Morocco, as well as the city of Algiers in Algeria.

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.

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.