Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Nacimiento : 1961-01-01, Abéché, Chad
Historia
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (French pronunciation: [ma.ama sale aʁun]; Arabic: محمد الصالح هارون; born 1961; Abéché). is a Chadian filmmaker. Stylistically restrained but loaded with complex moral and political themes, Haroun’s films confront questions of individual, familial, and national responsibility with unerring compassion and profound personal insight.
He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both writes and directs his films. Though he has lived in France since 1982, most of his films have been set in and made in Chad. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was Minister of Tourism, Culture and Crafts of Chad from February 5, 2017, to February 8, 2018.
Screenplay
En las afueras de la capital de Chad, la decidida madre soltera Amina trabaja incansablemente para mantenerse a sí misma y a su hija María de 15 años. Cuando Amina descubre que María está embarazada y no quiere un hijo, las dos mujeres comienzan a buscar un aborto, condenado tanto por la religión como por la ley. En el proceso, madre e hija forjan una conexión más fuerte que nunca.
Director
En las afueras de la capital de Chad, la decidida madre soltera Amina trabaja incansablemente para mantenerse a sí misma y a su hija María de 15 años. Cuando Amina descubre que María está embarazada y no quiere un hijo, las dos mujeres comienzan a buscar un aborto, condenado tanto por la religión como por la ley. En el proceso, madre e hija forjan una conexión más fuerte que nunca.
Co-Producer
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 to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.
Director
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 solutions.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Director
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 meet those who survived this tragedy and who still bear the scars of the horror in their flesh and in their souls. Through their courage and determination, the victims accomplish an unprecedented feat in the history of Africa: that of bringing a Head of State to trial.
Co-Director
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.
Writer
A pesar de que su pierna paralizada debería impedírselo, Grigris, de 25 años, sueña con ser bailarín. Un desafío. Pero su sueño se desvanece cuando su tío enferma gravemente. Para salvarle, decide trabajar para traficantes de gasolina…
Director
A pesar de que su pierna paralizada debería impedírselo, Grigris, de 25 años, sueña con ser bailarín. Un desafío. Pero su sueño se desvanece cuando su tío enferma gravemente. Para salvarle, decide trabajar para traficantes de gasolina…
Screenplay
Chad, en la actualidad. Adam, sesenta y tantos años, antiguo campeón de natación, es profesor en la piscina de un hotel de lujo en N'Djamena. Cuando unos empresarios chinos adquieren el hotel, se ve obligado a dejar su puesto a su hijo Abdel. Sufre mucho con esta situación, que considera como una decadencia social. El país es presa de la guerra civil y los rebeldes armados amenazan el poder. El gobierno, como respuesta, recurre a la población para un "esfuerzo de guerra" que exige de ellos dinero o hijos en edad de combatir a los asaltantes. Por este motivo, Adam es acosado constantemente por su Jefe de Distrito para que entregue su contribución. Pero Adam no tiene dinero, lo único que tiene es su hijo...
Director
Chad, en la actualidad. Adam, sesenta y tantos años, antiguo campeón de natación, es profesor en la piscina de un hotel de lujo en N'Djamena. Cuando unos empresarios chinos adquieren el hotel, se ve obligado a dejar su puesto a su hijo Abdel. Sufre mucho con esta situación, que considera como una decadencia social. El país es presa de la guerra civil y los rebeldes armados amenazan el poder. El gobierno, como respuesta, recurre a la población para un "esfuerzo de guerra" que exige de ellos dinero o hijos en edad de combatir a los asaltantes. Por este motivo, Adam es acosado constantemente por su Jefe de Distrito para que entregue su contribución. Pero Adam no tiene dinero, lo único que tiene es su hijo...
Co-Director
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.
Director
Moussa attempts to cross the desert to escape his debts, only to return to his village defeated and dejected.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Producer
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 him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
Writer
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 him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
Director
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 him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
Director
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 facts about Kalala's death and to honour his memory.
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Director
Tradition and AIDS in Africa. What to do when the respect of tradition is at odds with the community's health?
Writer
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 frames. Their mother (Achta) eventually despairs and sends them to Koranic school. Unhappy, they plan their escape until the eldest boy falls in love with a deaf girl (Khalil).
Director
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 frames. Their mother (Achta) eventually despairs and sends them to Koranic school. Unhappy, they plan their escape until the eldest boy falls in love with a deaf girl (Khalil).
Director
Director of Photography
A Chadian film director who lives and works in France (Haroun) 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.
Director
A Chadian film director who lives and works in France (Haroun) 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.
Haroun
A Chadian film director who lives and works in France (Haroun) 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.
Writer
A Chadian film director who lives and works in France (Haroun) 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.
Director
Writer
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?
Director
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?
Director
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 the multiple facets of Sotigui Kouyate, actor, musician and modern griot.
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Writer
A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.
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A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.
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Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.
Director
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.
Director
El combate contra la contaminación de una joven, Leila, que enseña a mujeres pescadoras, desoladas por la escasez de peces con los que alimentar a sus hijos, a tejer cuerdas.
