Algeria Movies

In an extended panoramic view—an "audioscopy" of Algiers—the camera’s eye scrutinizes various buildings and city-center...

On December 10, 1998, Kamel Messaoudi died in a traffic accident at the age of 37, at the height of his fame. In the early 1990s, when Algiers...

Part of Zineb Sedira's art installation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. A piece where Sedira explores her passion for the...

Political activist Kader Affak—the unforgettable surveyor of Tariq Teguia’s film Inland—runs a charity on the same premises as Le...

Inspector Tahar is conducting a police investigation to solve a criminal case.

The film critic and historian Ahmed Bedjaoui recounts how Algeria became a global centre for militant cinema after the country achieved independence...

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

A filmmaker travels with her mother across the Sahara in search of Tin Hinan, the queen of the Tuareg, and encounters a nomadic way of life that is...

Fous de Musique by Jean-Charles Carlus (1957) is a musical comedy featuring Rouiched, Mahieddine Bentir and the famous Bendaoud orchestra. Shot...

After Adam suggested to his friends Enzo, Achraf and Marwan that they investigate the presence of a monster living in the park where they were...

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges...

The five-year-old girl Nadia lives in a slum in Casablanca, which is separated from the rest of the city by a surrounding wall. One day, Nadia...

Solidarity in the eyes of Sahrawis’s children

An adaptation of the satirical play of the same name by comedian Rouïched (Ahmed Ayad). "El-Ghoula" (The Vampire) tells the story of a corrupt...

In the remote Algerian desert near the Malian border, 10-year-old Brahim lives peacefully with his Tuareg family, in harmony with the vast,...

Abba Abidin, a 24-year old Sahrawi, has lived his entire adolescence in Spain. He hasn’t seen his family for many years, as they live in a camp...