The Seventh Door (1947)
Gênero : Drama, Fantasia
Runtime : 1H 28M
Director : André Zwoboda
Sinopse
An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the sea" says the young lad" No use, you'd dive to get it back". The young man is curious and he cannot resist temptation: he opens the forbidden door. A strange world is waiting for him where a girl, Leila, will be his guide .
Em um mosteiro encravado nas montanhas do Norte de África, na década de 1990, oito monges franceses vivem em harmonia com seus irmãos muçulmanos. Quando uma equipe de trabalhadores estrangeiros é massacrada por um grupo islâmico, o terror instaura-se na região. - Ganhou o Grande Prêmio do Festival do Cannes em 2010. - Ganhou o Prêmio do Júri Ecumênico no Festival de Cannes 2010.
Documentário satírico em que o diretor Michael Moore se responsabiliza com o Pentágono de ser o invasor para a América a partir de agora. Ele manterá a guerra infinita que é usada para suportar o complexo militar industrial americano.
Durante a Guerra da Argélia, em 1954, o professor Daru (Viggo Mortensen) fora recrutado para lutar pelo exército francês. Ele nasceu na Argélia, mas é de família espanhola. Sua identidade e nacionalidade são questionadas por argelinos e também por franceses. Daru não concorda com a guerra e se sente totalmente deslocado. A polícia questiona sua lealdade , acreditando que ele pode ser um traidor disfarçado.
Pépé é um gangster de Paris que se esconde na Argélia. Após dois anos se escondendo, começa a sentir falta de sua liberdade, mesmo com poderes. Ao conhecer Gaby, sua vontade de voltar só aumenta, mas se voltar pode ser pego pelo detetive Slimane.
Neige, divorciada e mãe de três crianças, visita regularmente Emir, seu avô argelino, que vive agora em um asilo para idosos. Ela adora e admira seu papel de alicerce da família, e como o homem que a criou e sobretudo a protegeu da atmosfera tóxica que marcava seu relacionamento com os pais. As relações entre os muitos parentes se complicam quando Emir morre, desencadeando uma tempestade familiar e uma profunda crise de identidade em Neige.
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 story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.
Giacomo has an idol: James Bond. When he dreams, he dreams of himself, his fabulous adventures, especially in Tunisia, and a beautiful wife, Belle. In reality he is unemployed, overwhelmed by an obsessive mother who continually called to see if he wore his woolen tank top and is treated by a doctor who thinks he is Einstein. Finally Giacomo is followed by bizarre characters, kidnapped and taken to Tunisia to live a wonderful adventure of her dreams, from the dangers of any kind ... and he met Beatrice
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.
Directed by Sid Ali Mazif.
Inspired by Lord Byron’s epic poem, this jewel of the repertoire boasts a lavish production complete with a shipwreck, pirates, and some of ballet’s most renowned scenes.
An Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the guerilla is active and the French military has to keep a close watch on the locals...
Ainouz se baseou na história de seus pais, Iracema, uma brasileira, e Majid, um argelino, que se conheceram nos Estados Unidos. Eles se separaram em 1965, quando ele retornou à Argélia e ela, ao Brasil, grávida. Karim só conheceu o pai aos 20 anos. O filme é um inventário afetivo dessa relação. “O Marinheiro das Montanhas” integra a seleção Sessões Especiais da 74ª edição do Festival de Cannes.
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...
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.
N is coming from the desert to reach the north of Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. Alone in Tunisia, he decides to cross the solitary sea. He steals a boat and begins his journey, but it soon sinks into the water. From that moment, N embarks in a special and unique voyage: he discovers different and infinite spaces, makes intense and fleeting encounters, and meets another altered image of himself.
