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Centre Algérien pour l'Art et l'Industrie Cinématographique (CAAIC)

Centre Algérien pour l'Art et l'Industrie Cinématographique (CAAIC)

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Browse 14 movies from Centre Algérien pour l'Art et l'Industrie Cinématographique (CAAIC)

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Lumières poster
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Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist giving him a censored history of cinema and Algeria, which helps him to change, and to accept his own fantasies, embodied by Marilyn Monroe and the Andalusian.

Lumières

Jan 1989

Gourbi Palace poster
Movie

A poor man rescues a rich man from burglars. as a way for thanking him The rich guy invite him and his family to come and live in his luxurious hotel. The poor family's life turns upside down in their new home.

Gourbi Palace

Mar 2006

Hassan Niya poster
Movie

The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole series of incidents, misunderstandings, will punctuate his daily routine in which we find him in turn driver, waiter, welder, etc. But, he refuses to submit to anything that does not conform to the idea he has of society and things...

Hassan Niya

Jan 1989

El Ouelf Essaïb poster
Movie

An Algerian music composer and his friends live a thrilling story, full of twists and turns.

El Ouelf Essaïb

Jan 1990

Yaouled poster
Movie

A young Arab boy, a teenager "Yaouled", who lives on the streets and scrapes by doing odd jobs: shoe shining, street vending, etc. The film tells the story of a group of yaouleds from the Bab-el-Oued neighborhood, caught in the crossfire between the French settlers on one side and the Algerians on the other during the events of July 1962 in Algeria.

Yaouled

Jan 1993

Sons of the Earth poster
Movie

A drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.

Sons of the Earth

Jan 1991

Gates of Silence poster
Movie

In 1955, what was known as the "Algerian War" gradually escalated into all-out war, and the French army inexorably transformed into a soldiery accustomed to colonial humiliation and massacres. Amar is a young deaf and mute man who wants to join the resistance, but he is rejected because of his disability, despite all the training he received from his father, who was an expert in hunting and horses. The raid on his village, which he watches helplessly, drives him to seek revenge, he who had until then been locked away in "The Gates of Silence."

Gates of Silence

Jan 1987

Leila and the Others poster
Movie

The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.

Leila and the Others

Jan 1977

Rose Of The Desert poster
Movie

An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day. Moussa, disabled from birth, lives there with his sister Zineb; They try, together, to reconstitute a family unit that the war has destroyed. The family is the dream of the idyllic times of childhood, of times when parents took all the responsibilities. Moussa is perfectly independent, although he has no arms, he nevertheless loves being cared for by his sister. Zineb, for her part, does not dare to face the new world that a marriage would constitute. Life passes punctuated by the same gestures. Zineb takes the bus to go to work at the date packaging factory. Moussa goes to see the schoolmaster, draws or dreams of Mériem, the woman he loves. A rose secretly grows in the sand, which Moussa waters every day.

Rose Of The Desert

Jan 1989

The Forgotten Hill poster
Movie

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian village of Tagsa. While waiting to be drafted into the French Army they have time to woo. Mokrane falls for beautiful Aazi and soon marries her only to find out that she can bear no child. Menach, on his part, is stongly attracted to Davda, but the latter is already married to a rich merchant...Happiness does not seem to be in store for the two former students...

The Forgotten Hill

May 1996

Lotus Flower poster
Movie

After his family was brutally murdered by French settlers on his wedding day, an Algerian man joins the French army and is sent to Vietnam to fight in the First Indochina War.

Lotus Flower

Jan 1988

Huria poster
Movie

In the city of Constantine, the thwarted love affair of two students: Houria, fatherless, from a poor and traditional background, and Noureddine, son of a wealthy family influenced by Western lifestyle. Houria's brothers keep a close eye on her and want to marry her off to a first cousin. The young woman runs away and, when she returns home, Noureddine courageously asks her to marry him. But while Houria's family agrees, this time it is the girl who refuses...

Huria

Jan 1986

We Shall Go Onto the Mountain poster
Movie

Four short films covering the Algerian War, directed by three filmmakers, each telling a different story: The Maquis, The Rebel, The Rifle, and The Notebook of a Maquisard.

We Shall Go Onto the Mountain

Jan 1987

Yelema poster
Movie

The young Safi returns to Mali after her studies and succeeds her father as head of the family business. Her methods shock and the opposition builds up against her.

Yelema

Jan 1993