Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Birthday: 1961-01-01
Birthplace: Abéché, Chad
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
Soumsoum, la nuit des astres
2021-12-08 Lingui: The Sacred Bonds
2019-12-27 Lac
2019-10-22 Interdependence
2018-01-25 A Season in France
2016-05-14 Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy
2013-07-10 Grigris
2010-09-29 A Screaming Man
2008-08-13 Expectations
2008-07-18 Sex, Okra & Salted Butter
2006-09-01 Dry Season
2006-08-22 Kalala
2004-05-05 Scenarios from Africa: African Solidarity
2004-01-01 Scenarios from Africa: The Tree and the Wind
2003-11-05 Bye Bye Africa
2002-09-10 Abouna
2001-05-09 Letter from New York
1998-05-11 Un thé au sahel
1997-05-24 B 400
1996-01-01 Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot
1995-05-10 Bord' Africa
1995-01-02 Goï-Goï
1994-01-02 Maral tanié