Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1961-01-01 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

Abéché, Chad

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Biography

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 ...

Acting

2003

Production

2002

Abouna

as Director

2006

Dry Season

as Director

2006

Dry Season

as Producer

2010

A Screaming Man

as Director

2010

A Screaming Man

as Screenplay

1995

Bord' Africa

as Director

1998

Un thé au sahel

as Director

2001

2013

Grigris

as Director

2019

Talking About Trees

as Co-Producer

1995

Goï-Goï

as Director

1994

Maral tanié

as Director

2003

2002

Abouna

as Writer

2013

Grigris

as Writer

2021

2008

Expectations

as Director

2006

Dry Season

as Writer

2003

Bye Bye Africa

as Director

2003

Bye Bye Africa

as Director of Photography

1995

Goï-Goï

as Writer

1994

Maral tanié

as Writer

2018

2018

1997

B 400

as Director

1997

B 400

as Writer

2006

Kalala

as Director

2019

Lac

as Director

2019

Interdependence

as Director

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