A Screaming Man
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 30m
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | 91 mins | 2010
The first film from Chad to feature in the Cannes competition, where it was awarded the 2010 Jury Prize, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s affecting, postcolonial father-son story is set against the backdrop of civil war, but flouts war film conventions. Haroun confines his tale largely to the resort where Adam, a former swimming champion, works alongside Abdel, his 20-year-old son—until the elder man is pressured to enlist his offspring in the cause.
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