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A Screaming Man

Contemporary Cinema • 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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