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Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

Fr. 2012. Chronicle by Alexandre Arcady with Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Nora Arnezeder, Anne Consigny. From the 1930s to the dawn of the Algerian war, the son of a ruined peasant raised by his pharmacist uncle and his aunt of French origin faces a series of identity crises.

Runtime: 159 min.

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Monsieur Lazhar

Can. 2011. Drama by Philippe Falardeau with Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron. An Algerian awaiting refugee status is tricked into replacing a Montreal teacher who hanged herself in her Grade Six classroom.

Runtime: 95 min.

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Zarafa

Fr. 2011. Animation by Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie. In 1827, a young Sudanese man has a host of adventures while accompanying a giraffe to Paris.

Runtime: 78 min.

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Dernier Étage gauche, gauche

Fr. 2010. by Angelo Cianci with Hippolyte Girardot, Mohamed Fellag, Aymen Saïdi.

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Il faut sauver Saïd

Fr. 2008. Social drama by Didier Grousset with Dean Mechemache, Mohamed Fellag, Thomas Doucet. In a high school plagued by violence, a brilliant student of Algerian origin tries not to fall into delinquency.

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La Veuve tatouée

Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Virginie Sauveur with Martine Chevallier, Roland Giraud, Michel Duchaussoy. A wife and mother undergoes a radical change in her life after she inherits the plush apartment of an eccentric aunt.

Runtime: 110 min.

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Michou d'Auber

Fr. 2007. Chronicle by Thomas Gilou with Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Samy Seghir. In the early 1960s, a young Parisian of Algerian origin who is Muslim is placed with a provincial Catholic couple, where he must disguise his true identity.

Runtime: 127 min.

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Intimate Enemies

V.O.: L'Ennemi intime

Fr. 2007. War drama by Florent-Emilio Siri with Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel, Aurélien Recoing. During the Algerian war, a young idealistic French lieutenant experiences a painful disillusionment.

Runtime: 110 min.

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Voisins, voisines

Fr. 2005. Comedy by Malik Chibane with Frédéric Diefenthal, Anémone, Jackie Berroyer.

Runtime: 95 min.

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Rue des Figuiers

Fr. 2004. Mores comedy by Yasmina Yahiaoui with Monia Hichri, Marthe Villalonga, Mohamed Fellag. A Maghrebian hairdresser from Toulon causes quite a commotion in his neighborhood after returning from a trip to his country accompanied by his veiled wife.

Runtime: 82 min.

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Fleurs de sang

Suis. 2002. Drama by Alain Tanner, Myriam Mézières with Myriam Mézières, Bruno Todeschini, Louise Szpindel. Author of an artistically provocative act, a stripper leads a bohemian life with her nine-year-old daughter.

Runtime: 100 min.

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Le Gone du chaâba

Fr. 1997. Chronicle by Christophe Ruggia with Bouzid Negnoug, Mohamed Fellag, Nabil Ghalem. In the 1960s, the tribulations of an Algerian kid who lives with his family in a slum in Lyon.

Runtime: 96 min.