Liberation War Movies

In а short but heroic campaign, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev leads a band of rebels from the Danube to the Balkan Range.

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts...

The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an Algerian family expropriated from its...

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes prison. For one night, filmmaker Yann Le Masson films...

The play deals with the post-liberation stage of Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion, highlighting the political, economic and social issues and problems...

Chants d’Automne (Song of Autumn), is a story of daily life on a colonial farm, at the start of the war of liberation in Algeria, describing...

Around the fire, travellers and pirates recount their memories, their dreams, their battles. From one language to another, from story to story, we...