Algeria Movies

Set in Algeria, a widow whose husband was killed in a terrorist attack and her only son have to move from one village to another to escape false rumor...

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...

A teenager describes the painting he sees off-screen. He highlights the thoughtful nature of the person facing him. Two other young persons then engag...

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...

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

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...

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

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.

Soula Bahri plays herself in Salah Issaad’s debut feature, a road movie about a young single mother rejected by her family for dishonouring them and b...

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....

Koukou, 20 years old, lives with his parents and his sister Jura in the mountains of Kabylia. He is out of sync with his village inhabitants, because...

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...

A short film by Ahmed Zir

After a tragic accident kills her parents and brother, teenager Samaya is sent far away to study abroad by her wealthy grandfather, her only surviving...

Immigrants in the Paris area since 1964, Kader and his family decide to spend their summer vacation in his native village, not far from Algiers. Durin...

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 dese...