Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • 2006 • Chad
Starring Ali Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro, Djibril Ibrahim
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun crafts a complex moral tale set in the wake of Chad’s long civil war. After the government announces that amnesty will be granted to all war criminals, sixteen-year-old Atim (Ali Barkai) leaves home in order to track down and kill Nassara (Youssouf Djaoro), the man who murdered his father before Atim’s birth. But when Nassara takes the boy under his wing and even gives him a job, Atim faces a wrenching decision. Haroun’s understated style belies the intensity roiling beneath the surface of this profoundly human parable of revenge and redemption.
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • 2010 • France
Starring Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emile Abossolo M’bo
Mahamat Saleh Haroun won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for this powerfully understated portrait of a man wrestling with conflicts within himself, his family, and his country. A...
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • 2013 • Chad
Starring Souleymane Démé, Anaïs Monory, Cyril Gueï
Despite a paralyzed leg, twenty-five-year-old Grigris (Souleymane Démé) has hopes of becoming a professional dancer, earning extra cash putting his killer moves to good use on the dance floor of his...
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • 2017 • France
Starring Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Aalayna Lys
The first film made by Chadian-born Mahamat-Saleh Haroun in his longtime adopted home of France is a piercingly insightful, immigrant’s-eye view of contemporary Europe. Having fled his home in...
