Algerian director Merzak Allouache received the Variety International Vanguard Director Award at the Red Sea Film Festival over the weekend, prior to the premiere of his social comedy, “Front Row,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French sales outfit Alpha Violet has acquired the rights for Algerian horror film “Roqia,” written and directed by Yanis Koussim, ...

Algiers — Feature film "Le Puits" (The Well) by Algerian filmmaker Lotfi Bouchouchi will represent Algeria at the 89th Academy Awards (Oscars), said Wednesday in Algiers head of local committee of ...

Mounia Meddour, whose feature debut “Papicha” opened at Cannes and won two prizes at the Cesar Awards in 2020, has pulled together an eclectic female cast for her next film, “Malika,” which will tell ...

CANNES, France, May 21 (Reuters) - A film on the bloody fight for Algerian independence opened amid heightened police security in Cannes on Friday as demonstrators outside protested that it sullied ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - When Yasmina Adi got access to archives documenting the 1961 repression of Algerian protesters in Paris, she was shocked to uncover a trove of material relating to gaps in the story ...

EXCLUSIVE: Algerian filmmaker Yanis Koussim debuts his first feature, Roqia, a horror based on the bloody history of 1990s Algeria, this week in Venice. Check out the film’s first teaser above. The ...

In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle. Behind a locked door, ...

Nabil Boudraa received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Commission. As early as the 1960s he was one of the few African film-makers to claim a global platform.

Algerian filmmaker Yanis Koussim can still recall the first time he was truly frightened when watching something. He was six years old, and it was Michael Jackson’s ghoulish music video for Thriller, ...

The Battle of Algiers grabbed audiences in 1965 with its stark depiction of Algerian rebels’ bloody, victorious war against French colonial authorities. Now Criterion is releasing the DVD with many ...