A group of prominent Algerian film directors is sounding the alarm over the de-facto cancellation of the country’s national film fund, which they say puts Algerian cinema “at risk of death.” In an ...

Algerian filmmakers have stepped up a campaign calling for their government to unlock promised state funds for cinema, warning that Algeria‘s film industry is on its last legs following a ...

PARIS -- "Intimate Enemies" is the latest French film to bring the 1954-62 Algerian War -- long taboo -- out of the shadows and into the spotlight. By Rebecca Leffler, The Associated Press PARIS — As ...

The colonial scars remain: “On both sides of the Mediterranean, the wound is still open,” explains Bensmaïl, whose films were issued in a box-set earlier this year by the French Institut National de l ...

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CANNES, France (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 the memory ...

Algerian cinema is in search of a revival, decades after its 1970s heyday and steep decline, with authorities having blown hot and cold in their support. Today, the country counts only a few dozen ...

The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX has officially ended with Best Documentary Film DOX:AWARD going to Algerian writer-director Narimane Mari’s “Bloody Beans.” “Bloody Beans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prominent Egyptian producer and distributor Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic is headed to the Venice Film Festival with a trio of ...

This genre hybrid tells the true story of a French-born Algerian who tries to qualify for the Winter Olympics as a cross-country skier for his father's home country. By Boyd van Hoeij Though indeed ...