Innehåll: Beginnings in the 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- The 1990s -- Into the present -- An indigenous film culture: El chergui (1975) -- History as myth: Chronicle of the y ears of embers (1975) -- A fragile masculinity: Omar Gatlato (1976) -- Memory is a woman's voice: La nouba (1978) -- Imag(in)ing Europe: Miss Mona (1987) -- Defeat as destiny: Golden horseshoes (1989) -- Sexuality and gendered space: Halfaouine (19 90) -- A timeless world: Looking for my wife's husband (1993) -- A new future begins: Silences of the palace (1994) -- A new realism? Ali Zaoua (1999)