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The Cinema of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: War, Revenge, Redemption, and Possibilities

The Cinema of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: War, Revenge, Redemption, and Possibilities

Paperback

African History

ISBN13: 9798271484223
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 27 2025
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's films offer a stark, lyrical meditation on survival, dignity, and moral complexity in postcolonial Chad. Through stories of war, exile, secrecy, and resilience, Haroun crafts a cinema that resists spectacle and embraces silence, intimacy, and ethical depth. His characters, mothers, fugitives, dancers, and dreamers, navigate systems that fail them, forging bonds and choices that speak to the quiet strength of the human spirit. This study explores Haroun's work as a cinematic reckoning with injustice, and a testament to film's power to illuminate lives often left in the shadows.

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