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- A travel diary filmed on director Karim Aïnouz's first trip to Algeria, the country where his father was born, mixing travel records, home footage, family photographs, historical archives and super-8 footage.
- When history has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn't invent a country to fool themselves? The collapsing sets of Tito's Hollywood of the East take us on a journey through the rise and fall of the illusion called Yugoslavia. Exploring the ruins of the forgotten film sets and talking to directors, producers, policemen and Tito's projectionist about the state run film studios and Tito's personal love for cinema and it's stars, 'Cinema Komunisto' uses film clips to go back to the film when 'His story' became the official history.
- Koukou is called crazy for his different behavior. The village elders committee and his father decide to put him in a mental asylum.
- The humorous and uplifting story of two ingenuous Greek cousins, who tackle the world market with their organic tomato products.
- Three patients and a nurse from a women's psychiatric ward in Casablanca, Morocco, confront their suffering and forge a strong friendship, escaping in occasional nocturnal escapades that slowly help to bring them back to life.
- In the Mediterranean, a place that is both real and fictional. Where Icarus jumped from and burned his wings. Where liners, fishermen, migrants fleeing disaster, rescuers and scientists studying the consequences of global warming on the sea bed meet. Where signs are revealed: has our capacity to measure and interpret the world not fallen into a technological excess that loses its meaning for human beings and causes us to burn our wings? What would Euclid and Thales say about the rising seas? How would they judge our cynicism?
- After the December riots and the first peaceful marches in Algeria, while the Arab Spring begins in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi wants to gather his actors to show them the unfinished editing of the film he made two years ago on the illusion of a young man who seeks to express his artistic ideas. He seeks another point of view, especially an end, and he relies on the reactions of the actors to invent a new resolution of his history, in a country suddenly raised by a wave of disputes. During the projection of the film, the debate takes place: what is the place of art creation in Algeria today? How to create something without confronting censorship? How to resist ? By making movies or walking in streets towards a new revolution? Two stories intertwine, fiction and reality? A new vision of the Algerian youth of today in full political and artistic questioning.
- Victims of serious accidents are hospitalized at the Rehabilitation unit of a major Athenian hospital. Supported by the hospital staff, their families and ward-mates they try very hard to regain their previous abilities. For several months, they struggle daily, to re-learn basic gestures. Some will regain all their faculties. Others, due to the seriousness of their injuries, will not; they will therefore have to confront the challenge of accepting their handicap. Filmed from the point of view of four patients with mobility issues, the film explores the antinomy between hope and acceptance, one of the basic dilemmas of human existence.
- Mon Vieux is a lively documentary road, a race full of tenderness where memories drown in illness. Elie and Paul Semoun's complicit and laughing relationship illustrates another facet of this terrible illness: that of caregivers.
- El- Manara, is a brutally direct depiction of Algerian society during the rise of fundamentalist Islam, which was to give rise to civil war following the annulment of the 1991 elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won. It follows the life of Asma who now lives with her daughter in France, having, like many Algerians, fled the war.The film flashes back to Algiers where Asma, a university lecturer shares an apartment with her friends Ramadan, a doctor and Fawzi, a newspaper journalist. They attend the Manara festivities, celebrating Prophet Mohamed's anniversary. The event, a peaceful carnival with music and fireworks, is used as a backdrop to subsequent social transformations, and acts to give the viewer an idea of Muslim traditions in Algeria, which are placed in confrontation with the Wahabite ideology of the FIS. The three young people face obstacles to their friendship and carefree life as the traumas of the 1988 Algerian uprising and ensuing repression brings them face-to- face with their values. Beyond Algeria, the film provides keys to understand the fragility of democratic cultures in the region along with the mechanisms of disseminating fundamentalist Islamist ideas.
- Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home.
- A young woman, 20/25 years old, looks arrogant as she appears on a photo in the film. We know that she has the same name as Louise Michel. But who is she ? What connects her to Madeleine ? What link ? Friendly ? Family ? Is she dead ? Or is she still alive? Madeleine is talking to her, waiting for her, seeing her, looking for her and hoping for her - What if it was only the illusion of a spirit that slowly, inexorably wavers and Madeleine hides ?
- The legend of flamenco music Jorge Pardo comes into the challenge to gather a band with the greatest musicians from today for a unique fusion concert, accepting for the first time to be on the front of the scene.
- Your untangled hair hides a 7 year war. Cross-look of three women engaged alongside the FLN on colonization and the Algerian war of independence. They will know the clandestine, the prison, the torture, the psychiatric hospital. It is at the twilight of their lives that they choose to testify, after decades of silence. With clarity and modesty, they tell the story of colonial Algeria, segregation, racism, anti-Semitism, prison, torture, solidarity, freedom and also the nature that invigorates, soothing landscapes, music and poetry that allow the breakaway .
- He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision: he will no longer talk about cinema. Boudjemâa, our living memory. That of Algerian cinema, African cinema, Arab cinema, cinema in short. The Algiers Cinematheque. The "masterpiece of Algerian cinema". Boudjemâa Karèche directed it for 34 years. So why does Boudjemâa no longer talk about cinema? The answer lies next to the circumstances which caused his ouster from the Cinémathèque. Boudjemâa was silent. The time has come for him to let the word think for itself.
- By questioning sexuality, Nina and Yéléna are propelled into the heart of the feminist movement. An unsuspected pleasure is revealed, that of pursuing a collective emancipation.
- Whoever wants to live ends up troubled with life itself.
- For the 1,120 Continental workers, the closure of the plant came as a shock! Determined to face up to their destiny, they decide to do battle alone against the mighty multinational. They used every possible means, avoided all the traps and learned a lot about themselves. The human adventure goes beyond news headlines, revealing a tribe facing a challenge where their livelihoods are at stake. Their view of work, society and the crisis is both pertinent and lucid. Part documentary, part fiction, they play their own roles.
- In the heart of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Liminbout, hamlet of ten inhabitants, fight against an airport project that would erase their homes. "Here", they say, "we do not play politics; we live it."
- On January 14, 2011, four weeks of national wide uprisings throughout Tunisia resulted in the overthrow of dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years of unchallenged rule. But, as unexpected and dazzling as it may have appeared to the eyes of the whole world, the Tunisian revolution is part of a much larger story. Democracy Zero Year retraces the scenes of three years of struggle, which range from the first revolts in the mining basin of Gafsa in January 2008 until the first free elections in October 20112.
- The very real story of a regulatory assassination attempt, the banning of a handful of downgraded grape varieties, forbidden wines, accused of all evils, made guilty of having a bad taste and accused of driving people mad.
- "Mimezrane, The Girl with Braids" is the adaptation of a traditional Berber tale. The young orphan Mimezrane is struck by a curse: she cannot give birth to a child until she has the bracelets of Fertility. The very ones that make you blind if you haven't touched them before looking at them. Her lover, Hennouche, her lifelong lover, is ready to do anything to find them.
- When a Greek factory goes bankrupt, the workers occupy it and attempt to run it on their own. Self-management proves no easy task; soon they discover that they first need to change themselves.
- Between 1900 and 1920, more than 14 million immigrants arrived in the United States, Howard Zinn's parents among them. They came fleeing poverty, war, racism, or religious persecution and dreamed of a promised land, of wealth, of a better life. The New World opened its arms wide to the poor and huddled masses of the Old: its unwanted fugitives. But above all, the rapidly expanding industries of the time required cheap labor. There were strikes and labor struggles all over the country led by great figures such as Emma Goldman, Mother Jones, Eugenes Debs and the Wobblies.
- The year is 1895. Albertine Auclair, a young French journalist, comes to Algeria for family reasons. Once there, she hears of Arezki El Bachir, a Kabyle Robin Hood-like rebel, who has recently been condemned to death. Intrigued by the motivation of a man who, for twenty years on the run, robbed the rich (French settlers and their local sycophants alike) to give to the poor, she decides to know more about this unusual figure in particular and the political and sociological situation in general.
- Composer Giacinto Scelsi believed his work came to him from the gods. Discover the mysterious beauty of his world and his music.
- Death Must Be Earned is the intimate portrait of Serge Livrozet, former safe-cracker, one of the protagonists of 1970s French counter-culture, alongside Michel Foucault founder of the Committee of Prisoner's Action, self-taught writer and anarchist activist. The film portraits him at age 75 in his hometown of Nice where he revisits the pivotal episodes of his life of social struggle and political activism.