Hassen Ferhani

Tarzan, Don Quixote and Us

Hassen Ferhani

A walk through the Cervantes district of Algiers in search of characters and stories rooted in this city, from Tarzan & Jane to Don Quixote. Reality and fantasy merge as the collective memory of a district and film history come together.

Afric Hotel

Hassen Ferhani, Nabil Djedouani

In the heat of Algiers, the camera follows and accompanies Ibrahim, Adam, and Ismael, originally from sub-Saharan Africa, who live in this hotel with the predestined name. They work odd jobs. One is a lift operator in a building, the second is a shoemaker and the third works in the building sector.

143 rue du désert

Hassen Ferhani

Chawki Amari, Samir Elhakim

In the Algerian desert in her relay, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, a woman welcomes truckers, vagabonds and dreams... Her name is Malika.

De nos frères blessés

Hélier Cisterne

Vicky Krieps, Vincent Lacoste

1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, fighting for independence alongside the Algerians. Helene is fighting for Fernand’s life. History will irrevocably change the course of their destiny.

Fi rassi rond-point

Hassen Ferhani

In the largest slaughterhouse in Algiers, men live and work in closed to the throbbing rhythms of their tasks and their dreams. Hope, bitterness, love, paradise and hell, the football stories as of the Chaabi and Rai melodies that set their lives and their world.