Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Movies

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

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. ...

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....

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun lost his close friend and collaborator Hissein Djibrine (nicknamed 'Kalala' after the Congolese footballer) to Aids in 2003. he...

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

Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.