Since arriving on the world cinema stage with the deeply personal docudrama “Bye Bye Africa” (1999), Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has been at the forefront of a generation of filmmakers who have landed African cinema squarely on the map. Despite emigrating to France in the 1980s, at the height of Chad’s devastating civil war, he’s continued to return to his Central African roots, calling it his “duty” to document life in his native country.
A fixture at the Cannes Film Festival, where he scooped a Special Jury Prize for “A Screaming Man” (2010), and has three times competed for the Palme d’Or, the director will vie for his
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