Lounès Tazairt

And Their Children After Them (2024)

In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake. ...

Aïcha (2023)

Elsa, 12, lives with her mother in a small village in Provence, France. She eagerly awaits the arrival of her Algerian grandfather who is visiting them for the first time. This encounter will unexpectedly transform her relationship with her mother. ...

Murder on Devil's Bridge (2018)

A town mayor ends his life on Devil's Bridge. ...

Un Chibani (2016)

An old North African man, sitting in an Algerian bar, remembers his life spent in France. ...

Fevers (2014)

Benjamin is at war: with life, with adults, with himself. From his earliest childhood onwards, the 13-year old has been shunted from one care home to another. When his mother has to go to prison, he is sent to his father, whom he has never known. The man t ...

Qanis (2014)

Black Really Suits You (2012)

The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a grown-up ...

Omar Killed Me (2011)

In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Om ...

The Assault (2011)

December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers airport. ...

Intimate Enemies (2007)

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence. ...

Zaina: Rider of the Atlas (2005)

Young Zaina, must lead a caravan of precious thoroughbreds to Marrakech to take part of the most prestigious of all races : the Agdal. Along she'll have to face powerful OMAR and learn to trust her newly discovered father Mustapha. ...

Viva Algeria (2004)

This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former c ...

The Kid from Chaaba (1998)

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by i ...

No Time for Justice (1990)

A man is accused of a crime he didn't commit. He will be sexually abused in prison. ...

Le Passager du Tassili (1987)

Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he boards the ferry "Le Tassili" and during the crossing, he meets people who share his doubles, in a good mood t ...

The Flight of the Phoenix (1984)

Staubli is happy. He has just concluded a considerable deal with El Farik, one of his biggest successes as an arms dealer. To sign his final contract, Staubli takes the plane with Loussif, Serge Tournier and his wife Laura. During a stopover, a mechanical ...