Algeria Movies

What does smoking a cigarette mean if you stop smoking?

It is 1995. In a district in the suburbs of Algiers, 12-year-olds Samia and Nouara enjoy a happy friendship until violence suddenly appears in their l...

Based on a sound experience that takes place in the streets of Algiers.

This docu­men­tary traces the spring of 2004, the Abde­la­ziz Boute­flika re-elec­tion as President of the Alge­rian Repu­blic in the first round of e...

Dahbia is attempting to give her youngest son Naoufel a better life. Her daugher Chahra has the same hopes for her young daughter, Douaa. Asma Benazou...

Louisa, in her fifties, puts up missing person posters in search of her daughter, Souad. In a few shots, Fayçal Hammoum portrays a night of wandering...

A 25-year-old transgender woman dons the mantle of a male taxi driver by day—compelled by family expectations and fear of social stigma and rejection....

A girl, born deaf and wishing to hear, travels through the four elements of nature: earth, air, fire and water. But when her wish is granted, and she...

The Hirak protests appear as a counterpoint to the investigations conducted throughout the film, and seem to provide the gateway to the exploration of...

To the west of Seriana, the world stops turning for an instant under the heat of the sun, due to a flat tyre... This film is part of the Minutes 2016...

A short film made for Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded (2013). World premiere screening on 28 August 2013 during the 70th Venice International Film Festiv...

Starting from a small kiosk of old postcards as a derisory memorial of Algerian history, the visual artist questions the role of images - or the absen...

Invited for a second art residency at the Ateliers Sauvages in Algiers, Alexandra Roussopoulos meet again with the huge object she made a year ago; a...

Nnuba, meaning “each in turn” in the Tamazight language, is the name of a long-standing women’s self-help organisation. Its objective is for each to t...

A filmmaker from Scotland tries to understand what it means to be between two cultures by spending time with the women in her Algerian family.

In Algerian Novel - chapter 2, French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain reinterprets Algerian Novel - chapter 1. The film’s nested structure is a way to...

A panoramic shot over the terraces of Algiers. The camera zooms in and out, seeming to unexpectedly capture the private daily conversations of the inh...

In Larbi Ben M’Hidi street, in Algiers, Farouk Azzoug and his son own a nomad kiosk where they sell old postcards and reproduction of archival photogr...