Merzak Allouache

The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with ...

Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the ‘Harragas’, who smuggle ...

Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab el Oued, a working-class neighborhood in Algiers. Kamel is a loner, disillusioned and taciturn. Bouzid, ...

Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a ...

During the winter of 1995, while a transport strike paralyses the Ile de France, Anne and Patrice go to work by bicycle. Their meeting at a ...

Carvalho is investigating the murder of a man by a prostitute, according to the job the man’s wife has given him. But he cannot imagine ...

A female journalist becomes re-acquainted with an Algerian ex- colleague when she visits Beirut, and begins an affair with him.

Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for ...

The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian’s eye-opening ...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under ...

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker ...

Directed by Merzak Allouache.

A very unusual love story indeed the one that unites for a while Marie, a young French woman born in Algier, whose dream is becoming a top model ...

A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the ...