Legendary Algerian film-maker Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina has passed away at the age of 91. He is most commonly remembered as the first (and only) African to win the coveted Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes ...

Algerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, whose 1975 drama Chronicles of the Years of Fire remains Africa’s only Cannes Palme d’Or to this day, has died at the age of 91. Lakhdar-Hamina’s family said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French sales outfit Alpha Violet has acquired the rights for Algerian horror film "Roqia," written and directed by Yanis Koussim, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Best Friend Forever has acquired international rights to emerging director Dania Reymond-Boughenou’s debut feature “Silent Storms, ...

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 director Merzak Allouache received the Variety International Vanguard Director Award at the Red Sea Film Festival over the weekend, prior to the premiere of his social comedy, “Front Row,” ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rachid Bouchareb’s upcoming feature film Reggane, exploring France’s controversial nuclear tests in Algeria’s Sahara Desert in the early 1960s, has sparked interest out of the U.S. and Asia ...

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 ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The unsolved murder of seven French monks in Algeria during the brutal civil conflict of the 1990s is recounted in "Of Gods and Men," a somber and reflective entry at the ...

Algerian director Merzak Allouache received the Variety International Vanguard Director Award at the Red Sea Film Festival ...