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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

“I love Bresson: he understood everything about the cinema. I like his bare, strained style, his elegance. Pickpocket is a lesson of cinema.”

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    Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

    LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS

    MAHAMAT-SALEH HAROUN France, 2021

    We’re celebrating the start of New York’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival with a sumptuous masterwork from Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. A powerful ode to the resilience of Chadian women in the face of patriarchal cruelty, this quietly radical drama has all the healing warmth of a mother’s embrace.

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