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Matares

Mona, an 8-year-old Ivorian who fled the Ivory Coast, settled with her mother in Tipasa, an Algerian coastal town known for its Roman ruins "Matares". To pay the smuggler who will take it to Italy with his father, Mona sells flowers to tourists. Unfortunately, the Roman ruins of 'Matares' are the preserve of Said, a 10-year-old Algerian who also sells flowers. A feeling of hatred will spring up in the heart of the boy who will make war on this weird girl who speaks to the flowers, a ...

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2020 Drama 90 min Play

5.9

South Terminal

In a Mediterranean country plunging into armed conflict, a doctor tries to do his duty against all odds, until the day his destiny is turned upside down…

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5.9

2019 Drama 96 min Play

6.8

Sweet Mountain Christmas

A musician who is set to headline a Christmas concert in New York City makes a pit-stop in Tennessee to see her family. When a freak snowstorm hits, she finds herself stranded in the town, and is roped into taking part in a local Christmas concert.

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6.8

2019 Romance 87 min Play

7.7

Papicha

Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage through the public space. While a frenzied hunt for women unveiled is launched, Nedjma, a young student passionate about fashion, is determined to federate the girls of her campus to organize a fashion show braving all the forbidden.

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7.7

2019 Drama 108 min Play

7.3

Nefta Football Club

In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.

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7.3

2018 Comedy 17 min Play

4.5

The Algerian

The Algerian is an international political thriller about the colliding worlds of the Middle East and America. It follows Ali (Ben Youcef) across the world from Algeria to New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles as it reveals he is a sleeper cell part of an international plot.

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4.5

2015 Action 104 min Play

5.3

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

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5.3

2013 Drama 120 min Play

5.1

Chronicle of the Years of Fire

The beginings of the Algerian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a peasant.

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5.1

1975 Drama 177 min Play

7.9

Z

Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.

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7.9

1969 Drama 127 min Play

6

The Winds of the Aures

This black-and-white film – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – presents one of the most readily apparent, though subtle, transformations of the daily life of the people of Algeria brought about by the ordeal of French occupation and the war of liberation. With military repression in full force, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her house in the mountains when her only son is taken away by French soldiers soon after her husband is killed in a raid. One day, on seeing a dead ...

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6

1967 Drama 98 min Play

7

The Bakery Girl of Monceau

Early new wave effort from Rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.

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1963 Romance 23 min Play