Actor-director Salem talks about his second directorial outing, ‘The Man From Oran,’ a corrective to the official history of post-independence Algeria Buoyed by the spirit of the Arab spring, best ...

Algeria has banned “Barbie” after it has been shown in theaters in the country for several weeks because the film “promotes homosexuality and other Western deviances,” Reuters reported. An official ...

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, ...

A new generation of talent is turning its lens towards intimate storytelling, with Africa’s largest nation as its backdrop.

A group of prominent Algerian film directors is sounding the alarm over the de-facto cancellation of the country’s national film fund, which they say puts Algerian cinema “at risk of death.” In an ...

Algerian filmmakers have stepped up a campaign calling for their government to unlock promised state funds for cinema, warning that Algeria‘s film industry is on its last legs following a ...

Algiers — Feature film "Le Puits" (The Well) by Algerian filmmaker Lotfi Bouchouchi will represent Algeria at the 89th Academy Awards (Oscars), said Wednesday in Algiers head of local committee of ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 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 ...