Cape Town – Chadian writer-director Mahamet-Saleh Haroun is making waves at the Cannes Film Festival.
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds – a story he wrote, based on a single mother outcast by patriarchal society for being unwed – has been an outstanding movie of the first week of the Cannes Film Festival.
The film focuses on marginalised women who have similar experiences in Chad.
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Haroun hopes that this film will trigger dialogue in Chad and around the world in order to get rid of stereotypes and confining social constructions, African News reported.
The well-known director also wants to change the perception that the world has of the country’s image, moving away from the narrative of war scenes and showing the other side of Chad.
“If I don’t bring images from Chad, my country will be forgotten,” AP quoted Haroun as saying.
He added: “I have to make films to give other images of my country, rather than the cliché images of war, et cetera. It becomes more than a passion. It becomes a duty.”
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