Salah Teskouk

Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams (2012)

Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody resistance, and celebrate those who work to liberate others. Boutadjine creates his portraits of Third Wor ...

Pour Djamila (2012)

Paris Je T'aime (2006)

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair ...

La Petite Jérusalem (2005)

An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world. ...

L'Américain (2004)

Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul. ...

Break of Dawn (2002)

An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more p ...

Calamity Malik (1997)

Malik, who grew up in Paris suburbs, dreams to move to Canada. Someone will give him a chance. But, when you are an unlucky guy by nature, it is hard to keep its chance. ...

Everything Must Disappear (1997)

Robert Millard has based his industrial kingdom - based on all the noise technologies - thanks to his marriage with the wealthy and cantankerous Irene, he blithely cheat for years. However, his last link with his pretty secretary, Eve, is the straw that br ...

We Are All Cockroaches (1997)

Inspired by the subject and by his wife's own phobia, Luc Moullet approaches this often-feared insect through the unique prisms of religion and sexuality in a daring essay. ...

The Best Job in the World (1996)

To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, a ...

Tout doit disparaître (1996)

In Paris, men are waiting for a possible daily job in an agency. Among them, two novices Jean-Pierre and Théo. They find themselves in the suburbs to make a regular move. ...

Au petit Marguery (1995)

Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can't cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. B ...

Mayday (1995)

This a beautiful May evening. The sun has just set behind the hill. Tonight the inhabitants of the Le Corbusier housing unit are going to experience a slight change of program. They are all sitting in front of their TV sets and in twelve minutes the face o ...

Killer Kid (1994)

After his father is killed, Djilali is sold by his family to a Lebanese terrorist group. After completing a grueling training process alongside five other boys, Djilali is chosen for a special assignment and sent to Paris to live with carefree Arab boy Kar ...

588 rue Paradis (1992)

A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society. ...

Pierre and Djemila (1987)

Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre's father is an ...

Liberty at Night (1984)

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman. ...

Fire on Sight (1984)

Inept policemen try to stop an amoral young duo on a spree of robbery and murder in France. ...

The Empire of Dreams (1982)

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the "Hollywood" fantasies of his characters, non-professionals all hoping to be able to become "someone else", at least for the duration of a film… Mise en abyme fo ...

Dawn of the Damned (1965)

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot ...