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

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, ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The film suffers from some stereotyping but captures Middle Eastern women in a far more accurate light than most mainstream ...

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 ...

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,” ...