Director
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
65 years · Abéché, Chad · 19 films
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (French pronunciation: [ma.ama sale aʁun]; Arabic: محمد الصالح هارون; born 1961; Abéché). is a Chadian filmmaker. Loaded with complex moral and political themes, Haroun’s films confront questions of individual, familial, and national responsibility with unerring compassion and profound personal insight. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both writes and directs his films. Though he has lived in France since 1982, most of his films have been set in and made in Chad. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was Minister of Tourism, Culture and Crafts of Chad from February 5, 2017, to February 8, 2018.
Best known for
Lingui, the Sacred Bonds
2021 · Director, Screenplay
On MUBI
A Screaming Man
2010 · Director, Screenplay
On MUBI
A Season in France
2018 · Director, Writer
On France Channel Amazon Channel
Our Father
2002 · Director, Writer
On MUBI
Grigris
2013 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Dry Season
2006 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Filmography 19
Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars
2026 · Director, Screenplay
Lingui, the Sacred Bonds
2021 · Director, Screenplay
On MUBI
Lac
2019 · Director
Interdependence
2019 · Director
A Season in France
2018 · Director, Writer
On France Channel Amazon Channel
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy
2016 · Director
On OVID
Grigris
2013 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
A Screaming Man
2010 · Director, Screenplay
On MUBI
Expectations
2008 · Director
Sex, Okra & Salted Butter
2008 · Writer, Director
Dry Season
2006 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Kalala
2006 · Director
Bye Bye Africa
2003 · Haroun, Writer
Our Father
2002 · Director, Writer
On MUBI
Un thé au sahel
1998 · Director
B 400
1997 · Director, Writer
Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot
1996 · Director
Goï-Goï
1995 · Director, Writer
Maral tanié
1994 · Director, Writer