Abouna

Abouna (Our Father)

DVD cover
Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Produced by Guillaume de Seille
Abderrahmane Sissako
Written by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Starring Ahidjo Mahamet Moussa
Hamza Moctar Aguid
Zara Haroun
Mounira Khalil
Diego Moustapha Ngarade
Music by Ali Farka Touré
Cinematography Abraham Haile Biru
Edited by Sarah Taouss Matton
Distributed by Filmmuseum Distributie (Netherlands),
Kairos Filmverleih (Germany)
Leisure Time Features (USA)
MK2 Diffusion (France)
Release dates
  • 20 May 2002 (2002-05-20) (Cannes)
Running time
 84 minutes
Language Arabic, French

Abouna (English: "Our Father") is a 2002 film by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun. It was filmed on location in Gaoui and N'Djamena, Chad. It was the Chadian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards but was not nominated.

Plot

Moussa & Aguid

Two boys (Tahir and Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to examine the frames. Their mother (Achta) eventually despairs and sends them to Koranic school. Unhappy, they plan their escape until the eldest boy falls in love with a deaf girl (Khalil).

Casting and production

Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa, who played the 15-year-old Tahir, was offered a choice of boys to play his younger brother Amine. He eventually chose eight-year-old Hamza Moctar Aguid because he felt that Aguid could really be his brother.

After each day for shooting, film was sent 2600 miles to Paris for processing. Only after waiting several days, when word came back that there were no problems, would shooting resume.[1]

Awards

The film won the following awards:[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Abouna by Josh Hillman, BBC Four
  2. ↑ Awards, IMDB

External links

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