Algeria Movies

A short experimental mockumentary that approaches a minor, everyday physical pain with excessive seriousness, blending medical imagery, archival...

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

In this story, the young girl Ghariba sets out on a journey to find her friend Ajeeb and discover a way to cross a river guarded by a crocodile.

At the Café des Arts, two young musicians dreaming of forming a rock band cross paths with two septuagenarians, founding members of The...

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...

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...

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

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

Standing by a movie theater – recently renovated but desolate – a filmmaker approaches people in the street to speak with them about...

Directed by Kamal Dehane.

Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, the Algerian film industry flourished in an anti-colonial environment, giving rise to a nation of politically...

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