Movies: Maghreb immigration

  • 1976
    Château Espérance

    Château Espérance (1976)

    Château Espérance

    101976HD

    Rachid, a North African immigrant worker in the Fayard company for several years, saved to bring his wife Leïla and their son Larbi. They arrive in France for the first time. Leïla full of hope came to join her husband in exile. But very quickly, it ...

    Château Espérance
  • 1975
    Le Bougnoul

    Le Bougnoul (1975)

    Le Bougnoul

    101975HD

    A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the vehicle is stationary in a traffic jam, the driver refuses: while restarting, the bus hits the car in front...

    Le Bougnoul
  • 2024
    A French Youth

    A French Youth (2024)

    A French Youth

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    In the heart of the Camargue region, in the south of France, Jawad and Belka find freedom in their love of Camargue races. For these young Maghrebi men, the event is more than a simple tradition. Facing off with a bull is an opportunity to establish ...

    A French Youth
  • 1975
    The Ambassadors

    The Ambassadors (1975)

    The Ambassadors

    61975HD

    “Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, go...

    The Ambassadors
  • 1974
    A Finger in the Works

    A Finger in the Works (1974)

    A Finger in the Works

    101974HD

    Le Doigt Dans L'Engrenage is a film by Ahmed Rachedi, written by Rachid Boudjedra mixing fiction, filmed documents and interviews which recounts the arrival in Paris of an Algerian immigrant lost in the metro. On December 27, 1968, France and Algeria...

    A Finger in the Works
  • 2020
    Rock Against Police

    Rock Against Police (2020)

    Rock Against Police

    102020HD

    February 1980, young Abdelkader Lareiche was shot in the head by a building guard in a housing estate in Vitry. In a context marked by several racist crimes and a policy of security repression, his friends are mobilizing around the “Rock Against Poli...

    Rock Against Police