Abouna / Our Father
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Stars: Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa, Hamza Moctar Aguid and Zara Haroun
The
lives of two brothers, who live in N'djamena, are upended when they
awake one Saturday morning to find that their father has left the
family. They are Amine, about eight years old, playful and asthmatic,
and Tahir, 15, handsome, quiet, his brother's protector. The boys go in
search of their father, and find only trouble. Dad's leaving also
debilitates their mother. The movies, a musical uncle, a village Koran
school, a poster of a Moroccan beach, and a young deaf woman figure in
the resolution. Is there any place for happiness, or is happiness only
in storybooks?
Country: Chad
French + Arabic, with English subs