Algeria’s president has granted a humanitarian pardon to French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal after a yearlong ...
Boualem Sansal, a French-Algerian novelist, has returned to France after receiving a humanitarian pardon from Algeria.
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 ...
Prominent Egyptian producer and distributor Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic is headed to the Venice Film Festival with a trio of titles hailing from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Algeria. The strong Lido ...
Algeria said Wednesday it would "immediately" recall its ambassador from France for consultations, after documentaries about the North African country's anti-government protest movement were aired on ...
Algeria has banned “Barbie” after it has been shown in theaters in the country for several weeks because the film “promotes homosexuality and other Western deviances,” Reuters reported. An official ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...