Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Director

Born: January 1, 1961 (age 65)
From: Abéché, Chad

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (French pronunciation: [ma.ama sale aʁun]; Arabic: محمد الصالح هارون; born 1961; Abéché). is a Chadian filmmaker. 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…

Filmography (24)

Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars (2026)
Director
Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)
Director
Lac (2019)
Director
Interdependence (2019)
Director
A Season in France (2018)
Director
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy (2016)
Director
Grigris (2013)
Director
A Screaming Man (2010)
Director
Expectations (2008)
Director
Sex, Okra & Salted Butter (2008)
Director
Mambéty For Ever
Mambéty For Ever (2008)
Self
Dry Season (2006)
Director
Kalala (2006)
Director
Scenarios from Africa: African Solidarity
Scenarios from Africa: African Solidarity (2004)
Director
Scenarios from Africa: The Tree and the Wind
Scenarios from Africa: The Tree and the Wind (2004)
Director
Bye Bye Africa (2003)
Director
Our Father (2002)
Director
Letter from New York
Letter from New York (2001)
Director
Un thé au sahel (1998)
Director
B 400 (1997)
Director
Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot (1996)
Director
Bord' Africa
Bord' Africa (1995)
Director
Goï-Goï (1995)
Director
Maral tanié (1994)
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