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,” ...

The Battle of Algiers,” released in 1966, isn’t about terrorism, colonialism or insurgency in the tidy way a term paper is ...

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, ...

British songwriter and stylist Robyn Hitchcock (left) and filmmaker/musician/writer Boots Riley are the two headliners for the Free State Festival, the Lawrence Arts Center announced Thursday. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mounia Meddour, whose feature debut “Papicha” opened at Cannes and won two prizes at the Cesar Awards in 2020, has pulled together ...

CANNES, France, May 21 (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 ...

Nabil Boudraa received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Commission. As early as the 1960s he was one of the few African film-makers to claim a global platform.

Why 'The Battle of Algiers 'is still ranked among the 'best movies of all time' decades after its release.

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 ...

In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle. Behind a locked door, ...