Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun at IFFR

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  Dry Season

  When the government of Chad releases all the war criminals from the Civil War that scourged the country from 1965, the 15-year-old Atim takes the l

  • Film Maker in Focus: Abderrahmane Sissako
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  Bye Bye Africa

  Conversations with a small-time film producer and an unemployed projectionist confront a film-maker in Chad with the economic crisis in his country

  • main programme features
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  Letter from New York City

  Young African immigrant in New York is consumed by homesickness, but is determined to conquer a new life. Nice play between documentary and fiction

  • on the waterfront new films
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  Abouna

  A beautiful and energetic example of pan-African cinema, in which the life of two brothers changes drastically when their father runs off. A strict

  • Hubert Bals Fund
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  Grigris

  The star of the film is Souleymane Démé, handicapped by polio yet a spectacular dancer. He plays Grigris, who for lack of money approaches the Mafi

  • Spectrum
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  Expectations

  The film follows Moussa, a man attempting time and again to cross the desert on a seemingly impossible mission, only to return to his village defea

  • Signals - Where Is Africa
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  Une saison en France

  A melancholy portrait of refugees from Bangui trying to find a better life in France. Widower Abbas and his children seem to be doing well in Frenc

  • Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT)

• Abouna

• Dry Season

• Un homme qui crie