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Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is an independent state at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. The landlocked country is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city of N'Djamena. With a total area of around 1,284,000 km2 (496,000 sq mi), Chad is the fifth-largest country in Africa and the twentieth largest nation by area in the world. Chad has several regions: the Sahara desert in the north, an arid zone in the centre known as the Sahel and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. It is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Islam (55.1%) and Christianity (41.1%) are the main religions practiced in Chad. Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium AD, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade rou... ()
Languages used in Chad: French | Arabic | Hausa | Sango

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Lingui: The Sacred Bonds(2021)

1h 27min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

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 abortion, condemned by both religion and law. In the process, mother and daughter forge a connection stronger than any they’ve ever known.

Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun - With Youssouf Djaoro, Rihane Khalil Alio, Achouackh Abakar

Grigris(2013)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

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 money and decides to work for petrol smugglers.

Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun - With Cyril Gueï, Youssouf Djaoro, Hadje Fatime N'Goua, Marius Yelolo, Achouackh Abakar, Rémadji Adèle Ngaradoumbaye, ...
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A Screaming Man(2010)

NR
| 1h 32min | War, Drama
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

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 of, the only asset he can donate is his son.

Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun - With Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emile Abossolo M'Bo, Hadje Fatime N'Goua, Marius Yelolo, Heling Li, ...
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Abouna(2002)

1h 24min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

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).

Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun - With Koulsy Lamko, Ahidjo Moussa, Diego Mustapha Ngarade, Garba Issa, Hamza Moctar Aguid, Ramada Mahamat, ...

Interdependence Film 2019(2019)

1h 39min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

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.

Talking About Trees(2019)

1h 34min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

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.

Directed by Suhaib Gasmelbari

Tartina City(2007)

1h 28min

In an unnamed African country, a journalist is jailed after attempting to report on a sadistic colonel's death squad.

Directed by Issa Serge Coelo - With Youssouf Djaoro

Bye Bye Africa(1999)

1h 26min | Documentary, Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy(2016)

1h 22min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

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.

Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Ivory. A Crime Story(2016)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled throughout 30 countries to make a route of ivory smuggling and to find out the true culprit of these crimes against elephants.

Directed by Sergey Yastrzhembsky

Kalala(2006)

50min | Documentary

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.

Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Maral tanié(1994)

25min | Drama

Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.

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Expectations(2008)

29min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

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

Dry Season(2006)

1h 36min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

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...

Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun - With Youssouf Djaoro

Goï-Goï(1995)

15min | Drama

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

Daresalam(2001)

1h 40min | Drama, War
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting government official, the resulting massacre forces the two friends on a journey that will transform them from boys into men, from farmers into soldiers and from villagers into revolutionaries. "We fight in one world so we can live in another," declares Koni as the two battle shoulder to shoulder against government troops. But while Koni embraces the politics and carnage of their dangerous new guerilla existence, Djimi longs for the simplicity and grace of the village life they've left behind. As the rebels move closer to victory, the two friends move closer to a clash of their own.

Directed by Issa Serge Coelo

Captain Majid(2009)

1h 34min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Majid fights his own coach for Faiza's heart and the dream of playing international football.

Directed by Abakar Chene Massar, Bentley Brown

A Taxi for Aouzou(1994)

22min | Drama, Romance / Love, Documentary

In this wonderful hybrid of fiction and documentary, we become the close companions of Ali Baba Nour, a Chadian cab driver who explains his hopes and dreams, his challenges in a difficult and often violent society, and his optimism for the baby he and his wife are expecting. In this urban poem, we are treated to the color and movement of Ali Baba Nour's city. It is a generous postcard that one might send to a friend, telling of an unforgettable acquaintance and place.

Directed by Issa Serge Coelo

Ballon de sable(2021)

1h 16min | Documentary

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Oustaz(2016)

19min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

After the death of his Arabic teacher, an American-born filmmaker in the northern African country of Chad revisits home videos to explore the moment they started making movies together.

Directed by Bentley Brown

Feminine Dilemma(1994)

22min | Documentary
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A short film criticizing the practice of female genital mutilation. Alternating between real and enacted footage with various points of view.

The Third Day(1967)

25min | Drama

The African pioneer Edouard Sailly created a distinctive poetic cinema. Here, he ponders the state of mind of a mourning fisherman.