Algeria Movies

On independence, Algeria had it written into its Constitution that all revolutionary and national freedom movements could claim political asylum. lt...

Director Karim Moussaoui wonders what would come close to be called Opera in his home country, Algeria. Together with his crew, he travels to the...

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

The story of a terrifying woman named 'Lalla Zouina' (portrayed by Biyouna), who practices witchcraft and sorcery in her local community.

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...

The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies...

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

Wahid, a lonely young man who wishes for people around him to disappear, finds himself in a true struggle with isolation when his wish unexpectedly...

In the heart of the historic Casbah of Algiers, buzzing with life, we follow a day in the life of Mousaab, a passionate Algerian teenager navigating...

Larbi Ben Mhidi

A short philosophical satire that wanders between the absurd and the profound. From a silent bed stare to a prophetic lentil, Cryptex explores the...

A writer's journey within her inner world, attempting to discover herself through poetry

A nostalgic drift through the collective memory of Algerian youth circa 2009.

A documentary exploring the dying tradition of ancestral Amazigh tattooing in the Djurdjura mountains of Kabylie, Algeria.

While strolling through a garden in Algiers, a painter sees the silhouette of a man appear in the distance. Intrigued, she decides to follow him, but...