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Haroun, Mahamat-Saleh |
Date of birth
1961, N'Djamena, Chad
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (1961, N'Djamena, Chad)
Born in Chad in 1961, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun left the country during the civil war of the 1980s and relocated to France, by way of Cameroon.
There he worked as a journalist before studying at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma in Paris.
He is now more than a dozen years into his career as a filmmaker, shooting primarily in Chad.
This career has so far produced three feature films and a number of shorts that have made Haroun one of the leading lights in African cinema.
“I love Bresson: he understood everything about the cinema. I like his bare, strained style, his elegance. Pickpocket is a lesson of cinema.”
He excels at spinning narratives that begin with easily recognizable situations – usually the loss of a parent – and expand to encompass allegorical and political reflection on the state of Chadian society.
Often calm on the surface, Haroun’s filmmaking belies this calm with simmering strains of anger and melancholy.
While occasionally compared to the work of Iranian directors Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, perhaps because of their deceptively quiet surfaces, Haroun’s films recognizably belong to an African tradition of filmmaking stretching from Ousmane Sembene to Abderrahmane Sissako that considers the place of cinema in a postcolonial Africa and, by extension, in a postcolonial world. --filmstudycenter.org
Filmography
Shorts
1995 Goi-Goi 1997 B 400
Feature films
1999 Bye Bye Africa 2002 Abouna 2006 Daratt (Dry Season) 2008 Sexe, gombo et beurre salé 2010 A Screaming Man 2013 Grisgris
Documentaries
2005 Kalala
Selected filmography of
Haroun, Mahamat-Saleh
2021
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (2021)
2016
Hissein Habre A Chadian Tragedy | Hissène Habré, une tragédie tchadienne (2016)
2013
Grisgris (2013)
2010
A Screaming Man | Un homme qui crie (2010)
2006
Dry Season | Daratt (2006)
2002
Abouna | Our Father (2002)
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