Maghreb Movies

  • 1991
    Le Cri des hommes

    Le Cri des hommes

    Le Cri des hommes

    91991HD

    1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its...

    Le Cri des hommes
  • 1983
    The Mill of M. Fabre

    The Mill of M. Fabre

    The Mill of M. Fabre

    101983HD

    The story of the post-independence nationalization of the mill of Monsieur Fabre, an old man attached to the land of Algeria where he was born. In...

    The Mill of M. Fabre
  • 1983
    The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting

    The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting

    The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting

    8.11983HD

    “La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des...

    The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting
  • 1966
    The Women

    The Women

    The Women

    81966HD

    Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

    The Women
  • 2008
    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !

    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !

    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !

    102008HD

    Director Djamel Kelfaoui pays tribute to the great singer Cheb Hasni, king of sentimental raï, who became cult in Algeria and beyond its...

    Cheb Hasni, Je vis encore !
  • 1971
    Techniquement Si Simple

    Techniquement Si Simple

    Techniquement Si Simple

    8.251971HD

    Techniquement Si Simple
  • 1987
    Cry of Stone

    Cry of Stone

    Cry of Stone

    101987HD

    Led by Daoudi, a disenchanted architect, a group of Constantines return to their village in deep Algeria where a young man delivers to them words of...

    Cry of Stone
  • 1996
    The Forgotten Hill

    The Forgotten Hill

    The Forgotten Hill

    8.3331996HD

    At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian...

    The Forgotten Hill
  • 1979
    The Adventures of a Hero

    The Adventures of a Hero

    The Adventures of a Hero

    101979HD

    In one of the tribes of the Algerian Sahara, everyone awaits the arrival of the hero who will defend the rights of the poor. A man decides one day to...

    The Adventures of a Hero
  • 2010
    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

    102010HD

    François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie
  • 1975
    Les Enfants de Novembre

    Les Enfants de Novembre

    Les Enfants de Novembre

    101975HD

    In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child...

    Les Enfants de Novembre
  • 2007
    Algérie Tours Détours

    Algérie Tours Détours

    Algérie Tours Détours

    102007HD

    A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier, a militant filmmaker, considered...

    Algérie Tours Détours
  • 1980
    First Step

    First Step

    First Step

    9.51980HD

    A modern couple seeks to find marital happiness in a context where Algerian society is taking the “first step” towards female...

    First Step
  • 1983
    Harvest of Steel

    Harvest of Steel

    Harvest of Steel

    9.51983HD

    Years after Algeria gained independence, war continues to claim lives in Soulima, a border village surrounded by mines, whose victims are too...

    Harvest of Steel
  • 2008
    Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis

    Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis

    Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis

    102008HD

    Portrait of Si Mohand U M'hand, an Algerian Amazigh poet from the end of the last century, whose tragic destiny was marked by wandering and revolt....

    Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis
  • 1985
    How Much I Love You

    How Much I Love You

    How Much I Love You

    101985HD

    Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the secret 1950s nuclear tests that France conducted...

    How Much I Love You
  • 2011
    Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète

    Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète

    Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète

    102011HD

    Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one of the great French writers and...

    Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète
  • 2005
    Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds

    Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds

    Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds

    02005HD

    This video research is based on a trip to Morocco in July 2005, during which the director documented irregular migration transiting through Morocco,...

    Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds
  • 2007
    The Price of Freedom

    The Price of Freedom

    The Price of Freedom

    102007HD

    In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and a guerrab (water distributor), having become...

    The Price of Freedom
  • 1967
    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures

    6.81967HD

    The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While...

    The Winds of the Aures