Cléo, uma bela cantora, espera os resultados de uns exames médicos. Da superstição ao medo, da Rue de Rivoli ao Café Dôme, em casa ou nas ruas de Paris, vive o seu medo em tempo real. O seu amante, o seu músico, uma amiga e um soldado abrem-lhe os olhos para o mundo...
Às vésperas de sair da escola e entrar para a vida adulta, quatro jovens que estão terminando o colegial, passam pelos últimos espinhos da adolescência. Tendo como plano de fundo o sudoeste da França em 1962, época do final da guerra da Argélia, Henri (Frédéric Gorny), um garoto argelino se envolve com o doce François (Gaël Morel), a bela Maïté (Élodie Bouchez) e o rude Serge (Stéphane Rideau). Juntos, eles nutrem amizade, desejos e paixões uns pelos outros.
Os eventos decisivos da guerra pela independência da Argélia, marco do processo de libertação das colónias francesas na África. Entre 1954 e 1957 é mostrado o modo de agir dos dois lados do conflito, a Frente de Libertação Nacional e o exército francês. Enquanto o exército usava técnicas de tortura e eliminava o maior número possível de rebeldes, a FLN desenvolvia técnicas não-convencionais de combate, baseadas na guerrilha e no terrorismo.
Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His methods contrast with those of the other doctors in a context of colonization. A biopic in the heart of the Algerian war where a fight is waged in the name of Humanity.
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
Argélia, 1954. Enquanto a revolta ribomba no vale, dois homens muito diferentes, reunidos por um mundo em convulsão, são obrigados a fugir em conjunto pelas montanhas do Atlas. A meio de um inverno gelado, Daru, o professor solitário, tem de escoltar Mohamed, um aldeão acusado de homicídio. Perseguidos por homens a cavalo que procuram justiça sumária e colonos vingativos, os dois homens decidem enfrentar o desconhecido. Juntos, lutam para obter a sua liberdade.
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...
Em 1958, durante a Guerra da Argélia, Bruno Forestier, um jovem pertencente a um pequeno grupo de extrema direita que lutava contra a resistência argelina, chegou de França a Genebra. Como disfarce por ter desertado do exército francês, ele trabalha como fotógrafo. O líder do pequeno grupo, um deputado Poujadista, acusa-o de matar um jornalista de rádio suíço, Palivoda, um apoiante da causa argelina. Um amigo apresenta Bruno a uma jovem que “tem o mesmo tipo de boca de Leslie Caron” e que quer ser modelo e aposta com ele 50 dólares que ele vai se apaixonar por ela; logo após apresentá-lo a Verônica, uma aspirante a atriz, ele mantém a aposta. Le Petit Soldat é o segundo longa-metragem de Jean-Luc Godard depois de À Bout De Souffle, é o primeiro filme de Godard com Anna Karina. Filmado em 1960, só foi lançado em 25 de janeiro de 1963 devido à proibição da censura.
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow process of suffering and warlike revolts, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization in 1830, until this "Red All Saints' Day" of November 1, 1954. At its center, Ahmed gradually awakens to political awareness against colonization, under the gaze of his son, a symbol of the new Algeria, and that of Miloud, half-mad haranguer, half-prophet, incarnation of Popular memory of the revolt, the liberation of Algeria and its people.
An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois intellectuals, his communist commitment, his love for Spain and his opposition to the independence of Algeria, since it would cause the loss of his true home, his definitive estrangement.
This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur"as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation.
The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill. Memories from childhood return. He also must deal with some problems involving the Algerian fight for independence.
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .
1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, fighting for independence alongside the Algerians. Helene is fighting for Fernand’s life. History will irrevocably change the course of their destiny.
This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four-hour epic questions the right of any country to pass self-righteous moral judgements upon the actions of another country.
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the Tunisian border. Through the march of this group of guerrillas we witness the spirit of sacrifice and combativeness of these men from the people. The patrol will be decimated, but a young peasant will take over and complete the mission.
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.
Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world.
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial soldiers, in the Free Army out of loyalty to France and the idea of freedom that it embodies for him. A writer, he participated in the bubbling life of Saint-Germain with Césaire, Senghor and Sartre, debating tirelessly on the destiny of colonized peoples. As a doctor, he revolutionized the practice of psychiatry, seeking in the relations of domination of colonial societies the foundations of the pathologies of his patients in Blida. Activist, he brings together through his action and his history of him, the anger of peoples crushed by centuries of colonial oppression. But beyond this exceptional journey which makes sensitive the permanence of French colonialism in the Lesser Antilles at the gates of the Algerian desert, he leaves an incomparable body of work which has made him today one of the most studied French authors across the Atlantic.