Hassan El-Hassani

Directed by Amar Laskri.

Directed by Ahmed Rachedi.

An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman.

In 1880, in colonized Algeria, it was decided that the Algerian peasants of the Ouarsenis mountains would see their lands dispossessed in favor of the French colonists. Two methods were used to achieve this, either by sheer force or by a ploy forcing the fellahs to pay fines too high to be paid. The uprooted must then leave for the cities, swelling the mass of proletarians in the slums ...

Directed by Sid Ali Mazif.

Directed by Djafar Damardji.

Directed by Moussa Haddad.

Following a robbery in a circus, a young mobster, Jean, is arrested by Inspector Borelli. The thug denies involvement. To compel him to sign a full confession, Inspector Muller encourages the suspect to get married for - he says - to move the jury. This being done, he lets Jean believe that he can spend a moment alone with his wife; but then, Inspector Borelli blackmails him: "If you sign your confession, you can spend a moment with her." After being beaten, Jean signs a confession. It is then that a new blackmail intervenes: "the name of the accomplice?", asks the inspector. But the thug refuses to denounce the latter and ends up refusing the bargain dupes. While the guards drive him back to prison, his wife cuts his veins, breaking the career of the bad policeman.

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

오랫동안 정치적 망명을 떠났던 과학자 제트가 고국으로 돌아온다. 1963년 5월, 그는 핵실험을 반대하는 연설을 하던 도중 원인 모를 습격을 받아 중태에 빠지게 된다. 정부에서는 그 사건의 진실을 묻어두기 위해 판결을 조작한다. 그러나 제트의 희생이 정부 관료에 의해 꾸며진 음모라는 것이 밝혀지고, 이 사건을 묵인하려 했던 정부 관료들이 실형을 선고받게 된다. 그러나 1967년 쿠테타가 발생하고 군사 독재 정권이 들어서자 이들은 다시 복권된다.

This black-and-white film – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – presents one of the most readily apparent, though subtle, transformations of the daily life of the people of Algeria brought about by the ordeal of French occupation and the war of liberation. With military repression in full force, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her house in the mountains when her only son is taken away by French soldiers soon after her husband is killed in a raid. One day, on seeing a dead chicken, which she considers a bad omen, she decides to leave home, and sets off on a tiring journey through the mountains. With a pair of chickens in tow, she moves from one detention camp to the next in a desperate search for her missing son. The film was inspired by events experienced by the family of its director.

The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood. Children, freedom regained, do not yet know how to play “at peace”, they naturally play “at war”.