Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun ( Arabic محمد الصالح هارون, DMG Muḥammad aṣ-Ṣāliḥ Hārūn , * 1961 in Abéché , Chad ) is a film director , film producer and screenwriter .
Life
Haroun decided at the age of eight that he would later make films. He said in an interview: “When I went to the cinema for the first time at the age of eight, a woman smiled at the cinema guests from the screen. So I thought, I want to do something like that too. ”He fled Chad because of a civil war and first fled to Cameroon and then to France in 1982 , where he studied film at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in Paris until 1986 . However, he dropped out and instead went to the University of Bordeaux , where he turned to journalism.
In 1994 he finished his first short film Maral Tanié . This was followed by other short and documentary films, until he made a long film for the first time in 1999, Bye Bye Africa . The 86-minute film, which was produced entirely in Chad and won the CinemAvvenire Prize and the Luigi De Laurentiis Prize at the Venice International Film Festival , mixes fiction with reality and tells the story of a director from Chad (by Haroun played himself), who is returning to his home country after fifteen years and is looking for suitable locations for his next film.
After the success of Bye Bye Africa , the director decided to realize the youth drama Abouna - The Father . The film is about two brothers living in N'Djamena , whose father simply leaves them one day. The two start looking for him. The film, which, according to critics, “shows both the beauty and the brutal reality of murderous African life”, had a production cost of 700,000 euros and was financed almost entirely by French donors. Abouna - The Father won awards at various festivals and was the definitive breakthrough for the Paris-based director.
The approximately fifty-minute documentary Kalala was Haroun's next project, but it was only to attract more attention with the feature film Daratt , a co-production between Chad, France, Belgium and Austria, which premiered on September 1, 2006 in the competition at the 63rd International Film Festival from Venice and received several awards in Venice, including the Grand Jury Prize. At the center of the story, inspired by Mozart's operas , is a young man looking for his father's murderer. It turns out that the killer is a baker. The son is an apprentice to him.
After directing a short and a television film in 2008, A Man Who Shouts was invited to the competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival and won the jury award two years later . A year later he was appointed to the competition jury at the 64th Cannes Film Festival . His film Grigris Glück , released in 2013, was also nominated for various awards at several film festivals, including the cameraman Antoine Héberlé was awarded the Prix Vulcain de l'artiste technicien at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival .
Filmography
- 1994: Maral Tanié
- 1995: Bord 'Africa
- 1995: Goï-Goï
- 1997: B 400
- 1999: Bye Bye Africa
- 2002: Abouna - The Father (Abouna)
- 2005: Kalala
- 2006: Daratt
- 2008: Sexe, gombo et beurre salé (TV)
- 2008: Expectations
- 2010: A man who screams (Un homme qui crie)
- 2013: Grigris Glück (Grigris)
Web links
- Mahamat Saleh Haroun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuttgarter Kinderfilmtage ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Filmtage Augsburg 2003 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ New York Times ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Guardian Unlimited
- ↑ a b ORF.at ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The dancer on the wire rope in FAZ of April 10, 2015, page 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haroun, Mahamat-Saleh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chadian film director, film producer and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abéché , Chad |