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Okay, Mr. Ray!

No one could spin a yarn to make a sale like Ray Lum. Twenty years after their initial meeting, Bill Ferris returned home to Mississippi in the early

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at t

2004

CHoosing at Twenty

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts w

2017

Is Your Story Making You Sick?

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our s

2018

The Lives of Albert Camus

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely re

2020

Mariner of the Mountains

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first journey to Algeria. Accompanied by the memory of his m

2023

Into Great Silence

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea for

2005

La France de l'épuration, entre vengeance et justice

2025

Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of

2020

As Day Goes By

On a summer day, from his balcony, the filmmaker observes two women diligently cutting grass for their cows on one of the last remaining vacant plots

2024

نصر الدين ديني

Étienne Dinet (إتيان دينيه), born March 28, 1861 in Paris, where he died on December 24, 1929, was a French painter and lithographer. He was one of th

1977

Hadj Nasreddine Dinet

Étienne Dinet, born March 28, 1861 in Paris, where he died on December 24, 1929, was a French painter and lithographer. Having lived much of his life

2016

The Desert Wagon

A couple of artists travels through the Mexico desert to present their puppet show.

2024

Sunset Boulevards

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World War II, the director Cozarinsky returns to Argenti

1992

Dawn of the Damned

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences d

1965

Element of Survival

Beyond the sprawl of the urban jungle, 150 race teams meet to do battle in the heart of the Mojave Desert in southern California. The format is "run w

2014

Eternity Interrupted

The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.

2020

M'hamed Issiakhem

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi Sahraoui produced by the RTA in 1985 and filmed a

1985

The Spectacle

The Spectacle is a short reflective documentary that explores the world of modern tourism. Filmed in various locations across Europe, the documentary

2025

Camus, l'icône de la révolte

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights activists around the world today. The Nobel Prize winn

2020