Stichwort Djazair

Mit beeindruckender Glaubwürdigkeit vergegenwärtigt der Film die Schlüsselmomente des algerischen Kampfes um Unabhängigkeit von der französischen Besatzung in den 1950er Jahren. Als die Gewalt auf beiden Seiten eskaliert, werden Soldaten von Kindern erschossen, zünden Frauen Bomben in Cafés, und französische Soldaten bedienen sich der Folter, um den Willen der Aufständischen zu brechen. Im dokumentarischen Stil in den Straßen von Algier gedreht, ist der Film eine Studie moderner Kriegsführung – mit terroristischen Attacken und den brutalen Techniken ihrer Bekämpfung.

Ursprünglich sollte Fata Morgana ein afrikanischer Science-Fiction-Film werden, der in der algerischen Sahara gedreht wurde. Am Ende gibt es immer noch Afrika und Algerien, aber es ist keine Fiktion oder Dokumentation mehr. Fata Morgana ist eine Art experimentelles episches Gedicht in drei Teilen: Schöpfung, Paradies und Das Goldene Zeitalter. Ein quasi-animistischer Film, der durch eine schamanische Collage aus Bildern, Texten und Musik Trance und Ekstase anstrebt. Werner Herzog definierte es als das erste Erwachen und das erste Staunen. Ein außergewöhnliches Erlebnis, poetisch und kraftvoll, aber auch zutiefst persönlich.

In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome the trials they go through every day to ensure their subsistence. Her deceased father is Aïni, the mother, who bleeds herself from all four veins to keep her children and their grandmother alive. The families of Dar Sbitar share their intimacy and their daily life, this life animates the big house, which itself becomes a character in its own right. "El Harik" (The Fire), is an Algerian drama series in 10 episodes adapted from Mohamed Dib's trilogy "The Big House", "The Fire" and "The Loom".

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.

"Bled Music" is an Algerian musical television program broadcast on ENTV between 1991 and 1992. directed by Aziz Smati and presented by Kamel Dynamite, Farid Rockeur and Samia Benkherroubi. The show, with its irreverent tone, was very popular and had a significant impact on the Algerian music scene, allowing the emergence of many artists including Chaba Fadela, Cheb Sahraoui, Cheb Anouar and Mohamed Lamine. A ranking of music videos by popularity and relied on fans sending their votes by mail. At the end of the 1980s, unrest broke out in Algeria which led the country into a Black Decade. At this time, fundamentalist groups attempted to ban music and most other forms of artistic expression. The show continued to air despite death threats, but on February 14, 1994, Aziz Smati was shot in both legs by a young extremist, which ultimately led to the end of the show .