Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

January 1, 1961 · 65 years old

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (French pronunciation: ​[ma.ama sale aʁun]; Arabic: محمد الصالح هارون; born 1961; Abéché). is a Chadian filmmaker. Loaded with complex moral and political themes, Haroun’s films confront questions of individual, familial, and national responsibility with unerring compassion and…

Known For

9 titles
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A Screaming Man

A Screaming Man

2010 · 1h 32m · Movie

Present-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentf...

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Lingui

Lingui

2021 · 1h 27m · Movie

Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.

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Dry Season

Dry Season

2006 · 1h 36m · Movie

Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed...

6.9
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Our Father

Our Father

2002 · 1h 24m · Movie

Tahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.

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A Season in France

A Season in France

2018 · 1h 40m · Movie

An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.

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GriGris

GriGris

2013 · 1h 41m · Movie

Despite a paralyzed leg, Grigris, 25 year old, dreams of being a dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are dashed when his stepfather falls critically ill. To save him, Grigris resolves to work for petrol traffickers.

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Bye Bye Africa

Bye Bye Africa

2003 · 1h 26m · Movie

Semi-documentary film about a man going to his home country of Chad after many years living in exile in France.

6.4
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Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy

Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy

2016 · 1h 22m · Movie

In 2013 former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré's arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime . Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet t...

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Soumsoum, la nuit des astres

Soumsoum, la nuit des astres

2026 · 1h 41m · Movie

A 17-year-old named Kellou discovers unexplained supernatural powers. Meeting Aya transforms her confusion into a mystical journey where visible and invisible realms meet.

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