Movies: Karim Moussaoui

Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into the...

From an Iranian village to the Palais Garnier, from a hospital in Villejuif in the South of Algeria, voices are raised ... Four filmmakers, Julie Deliquet, Karim Moussaoui, Sergei Loznitsa and Jafar Panahi film songs of women and evoke in their own w...

Reda seemingly has a life of privilege in Algiers, in his late twenties still living at the family home, with a father who has arranged a job and a fiancée. Reda is eager to please, yet the more he tries the more he veers off course....

In an estate in the South of Algiers, in the middle of the nineties. Djaber and Yamina are neighbours, but do not know each other. For one as for the other, it is so difficult to meet between girls and boys, that they almost stopped dreaming about it...

Atop 17 flights of stairs, Madame Aldjeria rules over a crew of beautiful young women with the help of faithful son Riyad and clever lawyer Djaffar. Madame Aldjeria can set up a lonely old man with companionship or destroy the reputation of whomever ...

Director Karim Moussaoui wonders what would come close to be called Opera in his home country, Algeria. Together with his crew, he travels to the desert where he was told some women sung the Taguerabt (chant of the Gourara) in caves....

Addicted to mechanics, Amine is also addicted to roaring engines. In spite of severe past accidents, he takes to the road – for lack of a racetrack – and gives himself up to a curious camera that conveys with power and grace the unquenchable quest fo...