CW: Suggestions of sexual violence and rape.
Please note: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds is presented in collaboration with MUBI. To watch the film, visit https://mubi.com/promos/mizna and enter code: MIZNA. You can still watch Night directly on Eventive.
On the outskirts of Chad’s capital city, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her fifteen-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.
About the filmmaker
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. During the civil war of the 1980s, Haroun left the country and relocated to France, by way of Cameroon. There he worked as a journalist before studying at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma in Paris. His feature debut Bye Bye Africa (1999) was the first full-length film ever made in Chad. His third feature Dry Season (2006) won the Grand Special Jury Prize in Venice. A Screaming Man (2010) won the Jury Prize in Cannes, making Haroun the first Chadian director to enter, as well as win, an award in the main Cannes competition. He was also a member of the jury for the competition in Cannes in 2011. He was appointed as the Minister of Culture of Chad from February 2017 to February 2018 when he resigned from the position.
- Year2021
- Runtime88 minutes
- LanguageArabic, French
- CountryChad, France
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh Haroun
- ScreenwriterMahamat-Saleh Haroun
- ProducerMelanie Andernach
- Co-ProducerDiana Elbaum, Florence Stern
- CastAchouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro
- CinematographerMathieu Giombini
- EditorMarie-Hélène Dozo
- Sound DesignCorinna Fleig
CW: Suggestions of sexual violence and rape.
Please note: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds is presented in collaboration with MUBI. To watch the film, visit https://mubi.com/promos/mizna and enter code: MIZNA. You can still watch Night directly on Eventive.
On the outskirts of Chad’s capital city, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her fifteen-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.
About the filmmaker
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. During the civil war of the 1980s, Haroun left the country and relocated to France, by way of Cameroon. There he worked as a journalist before studying at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma in Paris. His feature debut Bye Bye Africa (1999) was the first full-length film ever made in Chad. His third feature Dry Season (2006) won the Grand Special Jury Prize in Venice. A Screaming Man (2010) won the Jury Prize in Cannes, making Haroun the first Chadian director to enter, as well as win, an award in the main Cannes competition. He was also a member of the jury for the competition in Cannes in 2011. He was appointed as the Minister of Culture of Chad from February 2017 to February 2018 when he resigned from the position.
- Year2021
- Runtime88 minutes
- LanguageArabic, French
- CountryChad, France
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh Haroun
- ScreenwriterMahamat-Saleh Haroun
- ProducerMelanie Andernach
- Co-ProducerDiana Elbaum, Florence Stern
- CastAchouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro
- CinematographerMathieu Giombini
- EditorMarie-Hélène Dozo
- Sound DesignCorinna Fleig