Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is one of the leading lights in contemporary African cinema. Across nine features—all but one made in his native Chad—Haroun has followed in the footsteps of his fellow continental greats Ousmane Sembène and Abderrahmane Sissako, interrogating the role of cinema in a postcolonial Africa. Haroun left Chad during the civil war of the 1980s, making his way to Paris...