Cinema of Chad
The Cinema of Chad is small though growing. The first film made in the country appears to have been 1958 John Huston adventure film The Roots of Heaven, filmed when the country was still a part of French Equatorial Africa.[1] Documentary filmmaker Edouard Sailly made a series of shorts in the 1960s depicting daily life in the country.[2] During this period there were a number of cinemas in the country, including in N'Djamena Le Normandie, Le Vogue, the Rio, the Étoile and the Shéherazade, and also the Rex in Sarh, the Logone in Moundou and the Ciné Chachati in Abéché.[3][4][5] The film industry suffered severely in the 1970s-80s as Chad became engulfed in a series of civil wars and foreign military interventions; film production stopped, and all the cinemas in Chad closed down. Following the ousting of dictator Hissène Habré by Idriss Déby in 1990 the situation in the country stabilised somewhat, allowing the development of a nascent film industry, most notably with the work of directors Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Issa Serge Coelo and Abakar Chene Massar.[6][7] Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has won awards at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Venice International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.[8][9] In January 2011 Le Normandie in N'Djamena, said to now be the only cinema in Chad, re-opened with government support.[10][11]
List of Chadian films
The following is a sortable list of films produced or shot in Chad.[12][13]
| Year | Title | Director | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | The Roots of Heaven | John Huston | Drama, action | American film partly shot in Chad |
| 1960 | Les Tonnes de l'Audace - Mission Ténéré Tchad | René Quinet & Louis Sommet | Documentary | |
| 1966 | Pêcheurs du Chari | Edouard Sailly | Ethnographic short | English title: Fishers of the Chari |
| 1966 | Le Lac Tchad | Edouard Sailly | Ethnographic short | English title: Lake Chad |
| 1966 | Salam el Kebir | Edouard Sailly | Ethnographic short | |
| 1966 | Les Abattoirs de Forchia | Edouard Sailly | Ethnographic short | English title: The Abattoirs of Forchia |
| 1966 | Largeau | Edouard Sailly | Ethnographic short | |
| 1967 | Le Troisième Jour | Edouard Sailly | Drama, short | English title: The Third Day |
| 1969 | L'Enfant du Tchad | Edouard Sailly | Ethnographic short | English title: The Infant of Chad |
| 1972 | A la Découverte du Tchad | Edouard Sailly | Ethnographic short | English title: Discovering Chad |
| 1994 | Maral Tanié | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Short | |
| 1994 | Un Taxi pour Aouzou | Issa Serge Coelo | Drama short | |
| 1995 | Goï-Goï | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Drama short | |
| 1995 | Dilemme au Féminin | Zara Mahamat Yacoub | TV film | English title: Female Dilemma |
| 1999 | Bye Bye Africa | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Drama | |
| 2000 | Daresalam | Issa Serge Coelo | War Drama | English title: Let There Be Peace |
| 2002 | Abouna | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Drama | English title: Our Father |
| 2005 | Addabache Djay Wara | Abakar Chene Massar | Drama | |
| 2006 | Daratt | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Drama | English title: Dry Season |
| 2006 | DP75: Tartina City | Issa Serge Coelo | Drama | |
| 2006 | Kalala | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Documentary | |
| 2009 | Le Pèlerin de Camp Nou | Abakar Chene Massar | Drama | English title: Captain Majid (a literal translation would be The Pilgrim of Camp Nou) |
| 2009 | La Deliverance | Richard Hunt | Documentary | |
| 2010 | A Screaming Man | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Drama | French title: Un homme qui crie |
| 2013 | GriGris | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Drama | |
| 2015 | Parler de Rose, Prisonnière de Hissène Habré | Isabel Coixet | Documentary | English title: Talking With Rose, Prisoner of Hissène Habré |
| 2017 | Hissein Habré, une Tragédie Tchadienne | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Documentary | English title: Hissène Habré, a Chadian Tragedy |
See also
External links
- Chadian film Archived 2008-03-07 at the Wayback Machine at the Internet Movie Database
References
- ^ IMDb - Chad, 8 October 2019
- ^ Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 407
- ^ Un cinéma renaît à N'Djamena, Jeune Afrique, 8 April 2011, retrieved 9 October 2019
- ^ Que sont devenues les salles de cinéma au Tchad?, Africultures, 12 October 2010, retrieved 9 October 2019
- ^ Patrick Ndiltah (6 March 2016), Les écrans noirs de N'Djaména : les ciné-clubs comme réponse à la fermeture des salles traditionnelles en Afrique : le cas du Tchad?, retrieved 9 October 2019
- ^ (in French) Bambé, Naygotimti (April 2007); "Issa Serge Coelo, cinéaste tchadien: On a encore du travail à faire Archived 30 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine", Tchad et Culture 256.
- ^ White, Jerry, Vertigo - Fatherlands: On Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Africa and an Evolving Political Cinema, retrieved 8 October 2019
- ^ Chang, Justin (23 May 2010). "'Uncle Boonmee' wins Palme d'Or". Variety. Retrieved 23 May 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Goi-Goi: The Dwarf, 9 April 2011, retrieved 8 October 2019
- ^ Dawn - Chad's only cinema dusts off its silver screen, 9 April 2011, retrieved 8 October 2019
- ^ The Hindu The man who brought cinema to war-hit Chad, 9 December 2017, retrieved 8 October 2019
- ^ IMDb - Chad, 8 October 2019
- ^ Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 407
