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Algeria


32 articles available in total starting from 20/09/2006. Last article published on 18/12/2024.

Kamir Aïnouz • Director of Honey Cigar

Interview: Kamir Aïnouz • Director of Honey Cigar

"A story of a young woman's body torn between two cultures"

VENICE 2020: French-Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz talked to us about her feature debut, Honey Cigar, which opened the 17th Giornate degli Autori  

05/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Honey Cigar

Review: Honey Cigar

VENICE 2020: Kamir Aïnouz opens Giornate degli Autori with her first work about a young woman trying to find her own path, but caught between two cultures  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Post-production resumes on Honey Cigar

Post-production resumes on Honey Cigar

Starring Zoé Adjani-Vallat, Amira Casar and Lyes Salem, the first feature by Kamir Ainouz is steered by Eliph Productions and Willow Films, with Best Friend Forever helming international sales  

26/05/2020 | Production | Funding | France/Belgium/Algeria

Lina Soualem  •​​ Director of Their Algeria

Interview: Lina Soualem •​​ Director of Their Algeria

"I needed to break that silence"

Lina Soualem tells us about her first feature film, the documentary Their Algeria, revealed and well received at the Visions du Réel festival  

05/05/2020 | Visions du Réel 2020

Review: Their Algeria

Review: Their Algeria

Lina Soualem makes a successful directorial debut with an intimate, sensitive and poignant documentary about her grandparents and the identity of Algerians who immigrated to France after the war  

29/04/2020 | Visions du Réel 2020

Review: Nardjes A.

Review: Nardjes A.

BERLINALE 2020: Un Certain Regard winner Karim Aïnouz makes an experiential documentary taking a look at a day in the life of Algerian protester Nardjes Asli  

02/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Review: 143 Sahara Street

Review: 143 Sahara Street

Hassen Ferhani’s Locarno prizewinning documentary about a truck stop in the Sahara desert is a slow-burning delight  

23/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Abou Leila

Review: Abou Leila

CANNES 2019: The stylish debut feature by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène deals with the mental stress of trauma  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week

Mounia Meddour  • Director of Papicha

Interview: Mounia Meddour • Director of Papicha

"It’s important to speak about fashion because there is a masculine and a feminine side to it"

CANNES 2019: Algerian helmer Mounia Meddour gives us the low-down on her feature debut, Papicha, screening in Un Certain Regard  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Papicha

Review: Papicha

CANNES 2019: With her first feature, Mounia Meddour revisits the dark hours of the dirty war in Algiers, following a very determined young woman who longs for freedom  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Un Certain Regard

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