PARIS -- "Intimate Enemies" is the latest French film to bring the 1954-62 Algerian War -- long taboo -- out of the shadows and into the spotlight. By Rebecca Leffler, The Associated Press PARIS — As ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Battle of Algiers grabbed audiences in 1965 with its stark depiction of Algerian rebels’ bloody, victorious war against French colonial authorities. Now Criterion is releasing the DVD with many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Berlin-based Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz, traveling to Algeria in 2019 to visit his father’s homeland became an emotional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prominent Egyptian producer and distributor Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic is headed to the Venice Film Festival with a trio of ...

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 ...