Rachid Bouchareb

After many years of having worked as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum, Alloune decides to go to America in search of his ancestors. They were taken away from his village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World.

1943. The young North Africans had never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the French Army, along with 130,000 other "indigenous soldiers," to liberate the "fatherland" from the Nazi enemy. These heroes that history forgot won battles in Italy, Provence and the Vosges before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion. (The Weinstein Company)

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks. (imdb)

After loosing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won. (imdb)

This drama provides an insightful examination of life in Vietnam following the Vietnamese war. It places special focus upon the fate of Amerasians in a country that values "racial purity." Son is half Vietnamese and half African-American. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Son's mother tried to find his father, an officer, so Son could go to America. (allmovie.com)

A Chicago housewife runs off to Las Vegas to compete in a belly dancing competition.

A Muslim ex-con forms a friendship with his parole officer. (imdb)

A drama about a young Algerian man who studied in Paris, France. After school, he returns to his native country - Algeria. But nobody wants to know him, meet him, nobody understands him nor his mother. (Jan Lipsansky)

On the night of December 5-6, 1986, Malik Oussekine died following police intervention, while Paris was shaken by student demonstrations against a new education reform. The Ministry of the Interior was all the more inclined to hush up the affair, since another Frenchman of Algerian origin had been killed by a police officer on the same night.