Catalogue des films de « Malek Bensmaïl »

En 1965, trois ans après l’indépendance de l’Algérie, Gillo Pontecorvo entreprend le tournage d’un film ambitieux reconstituant la bataille d’Alger (1957). Le film est le récit de la lutte qui a opposé à Alger les parachutistes du...

Accommodated since Algeria’s Bloody Decade of the nineties in the "House of the Press", the journalists of the famous daily newspaper El Watan await the completion of their new offices, a symbol of their independence. I decided to set up my...

Marie Colonna and Malek Bensmaïl were born in independent Algeria. They bring back the weeks between the cease-fire of March 19th 1962 and the election of the first Algerian National Assembly. French and Algerians bear testimony to the violence,...

On November 1st, 1954, near Ghassira, a village lost in the Aurès Mountains, a French teacher and his wife and a local governor became the first civilian victims of a seven-year war that would lead to the independence of Algeria. More than 50...

“Algeria, 2004 : Ali Benflis, former Prime minister and FLN secretary general, is determined and self confident as he sets out on his presidential campaign. Of the 5 opposition candidates, he is the main challenger to the outgoing president,...

Algerian society has undergone profound upheavals over the last century. It started when colonisation brought two cultures into violent contact. Since 1962, and to an even greater extent over the past ten years, Algeria has continuously been...

"A people without a voice". The first part focuses on the rise of Islamic fundamentalism trough legitimate means – with initial encouragement from some foreign governments (US, France, etc.). It looks at the post-colonial, social and economic...

"A land of mourning". The second part covers what's been called the "Boody Decade. With three main phases in the violence : targeted terrorism (on intellectuals, journalists, policemen from 1992 to 1994), the export of terrorism to Europe (1995)...

At a time when more and more spa treatment centres and balneotherapy institutes are springing up all over the world, and lathering, oiling, massaging and perfuming every inch of your body is all the rage, this documentary takes a look at the world...

Kader, an immigrant who has lived in the Paris area since 1957, is an electrician. With his family (his wife, and his children aged around 30 : Youcef, Amar, Myriam and Soraya), he decides to spend his summer holidays in his native village, not...