The Battle of Algiers

• Abdel Nabi Al Maghraby
• Jean Martin

In December 1959, the Algerian people take to the streets and squares in large groups carrying the new Algerian flag. Everyone calls with the loudest voice for independence and freedom, to be the...Read more spark of the Algerian revolution.

Ryaah Al-Awras

• Hassan El Hassani
• Tayan

An Algerian family destroyed by war, fears to live normally. The father finds himself in a whirlpool after his father was killed during an attack by the occupation forces. The son joins the National...Read more Liberation Army, during the day he does his job and at night he crosses the mountain carrying supplies for the soldiers.

Al Erk Al Aswad

• Hosni Kitouni
• Hassan El Hassani

A European minority resides in Ouenza District, Tébessa Province, Algeria in 1954, and thousands of Algerians work there. Among them is Al Amin Boularass, who was humiliated and expelled from the high...Read more school and finds himself forced to work at the mines. He is introduced to the rough conditions in which the miners have to live and work.

Waqae' Snin Al-Gamr

• Keltoum
• Layla Shina

An examination of life in Algeria between 1939 and 1954, showing the terrible drought that afflicted agricultural lands and pushed peasants to migrate towards cities, the struggles Algerians faced...Read more during WWII, the elections that took place, and the difficult choice that the Algerians had to make.

Hroob Hassan Al-Tayro

• Ahmed Ruichid
• Sid Ali Kouiret

In 1957, Hassan Al-Tayro is released from the captivity of the French forces as the authorities regard him as an important man who's responsible for the Algerian revolutionaries. As he reaches the...Read more revolutionary leaders, his naiveté makes him fail many of the tasks that the rebels entrust him with.