October 4, 2005
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no i...
September 7, 1966
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to pr...
September 9, 2011
During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teac...
September 26, 2006
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldie...
December 31, 1988
Nine people with Abdullah Le Clandestin (Illegal Taxi), in one car, on the way to Algiers....
August 8, 2017
When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola....
June 15, 2004
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealer...
January 8, 2012
Has everything really been said about the Algerian war? Although the archives are opening up, almost fifty years after the signing of the Evian Agreements (March 18, 1962), direct witnesses ...
December 31, 1993
Makhlouf Bombardier, unusual, decides to be elected mayor of a dechra (village). So he surrounds himself with trusted partners to organize a great campaign for his election. Bombardier becam...
May 11, 2022
Halim, a young man with intellectual disability, who's living with his single mother that struggles to take care of him...
December 31, 1979
Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sister Sassia, so she can get out of the house....
September 12, 2000
April 1995. When Selim, a young Marseillais of Algerian origin, tells his parents that he is homosexual, they reject him. Called to the flag, he decides to become a blue helmet in Bosnia....
October 6, 2020
Storm Child is a nightmarish incursion in the tormented mind of a four year old child. Yasmine and her family are Algerian refugees who just arrived in Québec during the infamous 1998 ice st...
March 10, 2018
Political activist Kader Affak—the unforgettable surveyor of Tariq Teguia’s film Inland—runs a charity on the same premises as Le Sous-Marin literary café that he is renovating. In powerful ...