Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)

On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an abortio ...

Lac (2019)

Kellou, in her forties, lives in Bol, the capital of Sahel's province. She's a fisher, profession transmitted from mother to daughter. She learned it from her mother. But since a few years, Lake Tchad has been shrinking, and fish has become rare. Kellou's ...

Talking About Trees (2019)

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping ...

Interdependence (2019)

Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined relationship between human society and nature that is aggravated by climate change on multiple scales, hinting at possible sol ...

A Season in France (2018)

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. ...

Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy (2016)

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 of the Hissein Habré Regime, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to m ...

Les 18 du 57, Boulevard de Strasbourg (2014)

Staying up day and night and occupying a hairdressing salon at 57 Bd de Strasbourg in Paris, eighteen undocumented workers are on strike since May 22, 2014, protesting against human trafficking and the local mafia. ...

Grigris (2013)

Souleymane, 25, dreams of being a dancer in spite of having a paralyzed leg. At nightclubs, he transforms into the beloved dancer Grigris, impressing people with his moves. However, when his stepfather falls seriously ill, Souleymane desperately needs mone ...

A Screaming Man (2010)

Adam Ousmane is a pool attendant at a local resort. When the new managers decide to downsize, Adam loses his job to his own son, Abdel. Shattered by the turn of events, Adam is pressured into contributing to the Chadian war effort. With no money to speak o ...

On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! (2010)

Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers and directors, producers, distributors and cinema owners. ...

Expectations (2008)

Moussa attempts to cross the desert to escape his debts, only to return to his village defeated and dejected. ...

Sex, Okra & Salted Butter (2008)

An extramarital affair leads to Hortense's separation from her very traditional African husband, who is in for a ride as he learns about her love affair, his eldest son's secret love life, and the responsibilities of single parenthood. ...

Dry Season (2006)

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 his father and to execute ...

Kalala (2006)

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun lost his close friend and collaborator Hissein Djibrine (nicknamed 'Kalala' after the Congolese footballer) to Aids in 2003. he returned to Chad to make this personal, cathartic documentary as an expression of his grief to unravel the ...

Scenarios from Africa: African Solidarity (2004)

Scenarios from Africa: The Tree and the Wind (2004)

Tradition and AIDS in Africa. What to do when the respect of tradition is at odds with the community's health? ...

Bye Bye Africa (2003)

A Chadian film director who lives and works in France returns home upon the death of his mother. He is shocked at the degraded state of the country and the national cinema. The filmmaker decides to make a film dedicated to his mother. ...

Our Father (2002)

Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to examine the f ...

Letter from New York (2001)

Un thé au sahel (1998)

B 400 (1997)

A girl is locked out of her apartment building as a result of a prank. Can she get back in without disobeying any of her mother's warnings? ...

Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot (1996)

Through testimonies by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane, and Sotigui Kouyate himself, SOTIGUI KOUYATE: A MODERN GRIOT dresses the portrait of one of Africa's greatest actor now based in Paris. From Africa to Europe, the film unveils t ...

Bord' Africa (1995)

Goï-Goï (1995)

A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor. ...

Maral tanié (1994)

Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. ...

Bye Bye Africa (2003)

A Chadian film director who lives and works in France returns home upon the death of his mother. He is shocked at the degraded state of the country and the national cinema. The filmmaker decides to make a film dedicated to his mother. ...