Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Movies

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....

Souleymane, 25, dreams of being a dancer in spite of having a paralyzed leg. At nightclubs, he transforms into the beloved dancer Grigris, impressing...

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...

Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined...

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...

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...

Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While...

Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar...

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad...

In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré’s arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. ...

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

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

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...

Through testimonies by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane, and Sotigui Kouyate himself, SOTIGUI KOUYATE: A MODERN GRIOT dresses...

Kellou, in her forties, lives in Bol, the capital of Sahel’s province. She’s a fisher, profession transmitted from mother to daughter....

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

Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.

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...

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