Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, widely regarded as the most prominent filmmaker in Chad today

The Cinema of Chad is small though growing. The first film made in the country appears to have been 1958 John Huston adventure film The Roots of Heaven, filmed when the country was still a part of French Equatorial Africa.[1] Documentary filmmaker Edouard Sailly made a series of shorts in the 1960s depicting daily life in the country.[2] During this period there were a number of cinemas in the country, including in N'Djamena Le Normandie, Le Vogue, the Rio, the Étoile and the Shéherazade, and also the Rex in Sarh, the Logone in Moundou and the Ciné Chachati in Abéché.[3][4][5] The film industry suffered severely in the 1970s-80s as Chad became engulfed in a series of civil wars and foreign military interventions; film production stopped, and all the cinemas in Chad closed down. Following the ousting of dictator Hissène Habré by Idriss Déby in 1990 the situation in the country stabilised somewhat, allowing the development of a nascent film industry, most notably with the work of directors Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Issa Serge Coelo and Abakar Chene Massar.[6][7] Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has won awards at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Venice International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.[8][9] In January 2011 Le Normandie in N'Djamena, said to now be the only cinema in Chad, re-opened with government support.[10][11]

List of Chadian films

The following is a sortable list of films produced or shot in Chad.[12][13]

Year Title English translation Director Genre Notes
1958The Roots of Heaven—John HustonAdventureAmerican film partly shot in Chad
1960Les Tonnes de l'Audace - Mission Ténéré TchadThe Tons of Audacity - Mission Ténéré TchadRené Quinet and Louis SommetDocumentary
1966Pêcheurs du ChariFishers of the ChariEdouard SaillyEthnographic short
Le Lac TchadLake Chad
Salam el Kebir—
Les Abattoirs de ForchiaThe Abattoirs of Forchia
Largeau—
1967Le Troisième JourThe Third DayDramaShort
1969L'Enfant du TchadThe Infant of ChadEthnographic short
1972A la Découverte du TchadDiscovering Chad
1994Maral Tanié—Mahamat-Saleh HarounDramaShort
Un Taxi pour AouzouA Taxi for AouzouIssa Serge CoeloDramaShort
1995Goï-Goï—Mahamat-Saleh HarounDramaShort
Dilemme au FémininFemale DilemmaZara Mahamat YacoubDramaTV film
1999Bye Bye Africa—Mahamat-Saleh HarounDrama
2000DaresalamLet There Be PeaceIssa Serge CoeloWar drama
2002AbounaOur FatherMahamat-Saleh HarounDrama
2005Addabache Djay Wara—Abakar Chene MassarDrama
2006DarattDry SeasonMahamat-Saleh HarounDrama
DP75: Tartina City—Issa Serge CoeloDrama
Kalala—Mahamat Saleh HarounDocumentary
2009Le Pèlerin de Camp NouCaptain Majid (a literal translation would be The Pilgrim of Camp Nou)Abakar Chene MassarDrama
La Deliverance—Richard HuntDocumentary
2010Un homme qui crieA Screaming ManMahamat-Saleh HarounDrama
2013GriGris—Drama
2015Parler de Rose, Prisonnière de Hissène HabréTalking with Rose, Prisoner of Hissène HabréIsabel CoixetDocumentarySpanish doc shot in Chad
2017Hissein Habré, une Tragédie TchadienneHissène Habré, a Chadian TragedyMahamat-Saleh HarounDocumentaryCo-produced by Senegal, France, Netherlands and the United Kingdom
2021Lingui, les liens sacrésLingui, The Sacred BondsDrama

See also

References

  1. ↑ IMDb - Chad, 8 October 2019
  2. ↑ Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 407
  3. ↑ Un cinéma renaît à N'Djamena, Jeune Afrique, 8 April 2011, retrieved 9 October 2019
  4. ↑ Que sont devenues les salles de cinéma au Tchad?, Africultures, 12 October 2010, retrieved 9 October 2019
  5. ↑ Patrick Ndiltah (6 March 2016), Les écrans noirs de N'Djaména : les ciné-clubs comme réponse à la fermeture des salles traditionnelles en Afrique : le cas du Tchad?, retrieved 9 October 2019
  6. ↑ (in French) Bambé, Naygotimti (April 2007); "Issa Serge Coelo, cinéaste tchadien: On a encore du travail à faire Archived 30 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine", Tchad et Culture 256.
  7. ↑ White, Jerry, Vertigo - Fatherlands: On Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Africa and an Evolving Political Cinema, retrieved 8 October 2019
  8. ↑ Chang, Justin (23 May 2010). "'Uncle Boonmee' wins Palme d'Or". Variety. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
  9. ↑ Goi-Goi: The Dwarf, 9 April 2011, retrieved 8 October 2019
  10. ↑ Dawn - Chad's only cinema dusts off its silver screen, 9 April 2011, retrieved 8 October 2019
  11. ↑ The Hindu The man who brought cinema to war-hit Chad, 9 December 2017, retrieved 8 October 2019
  12. ↑ IMDb - Chad, 8 October 2019
  13. ↑ Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 407
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