The film industry of Chad is small but growing. The first film made in the country was the 1958 John Huston adventure film The Roots of Heaven, filmed when the country was still a part of French Equatorial Africa. Documentary filmmaker Edouard Sailly made a series of shorts in the 1960s depicting daily life in the country.Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 407 During this period there were a number of cinemas in the country, including Le Normandie, Le Vogue, the Rio, the Étoile and the Shéherazade in N'Djamena, the Rex in Sarh, the Logone in Moundou and the Ciné Chachati in Abéché. 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 through the work of directors Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Issa Serge Coelo and Abakar Chene Massar. Bambé, Naygotimti (April 2007); "Issa Serge Coelo, cinéaste tchadien: On a encore du travail à faire ", Tchad et Culture 256. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has won awards at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Venice International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. In January 2011 Le Normandie in N'Djamena, said now to be the only cinema in Chad, re-opened with government support.
List of Films Shot in Chad
The following is a sortable list of films produced or shot in Chad.Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 407
Year Title English translation Director Genre Notes 1958 The Roots of Heaven John Huston Adventure American film partly shot in Chad 1960 Les Tonnes de l'Audace - Mission Ténéré Tchad The Tons of Audacity - Mission Ténéré Tchad René Quinet and Louis Sommet Documentary 1966 Pêcheurs du Chari Fishers of the Chari Edouard Sailly Ethnographic short Le Lac Tchad Lake Chad Salam el Kebir Les Abattoirs de Forchia The Abattoirs of Forchia Largeau 1967 Le Troisième Jour The Third Day Drama Short 1969 L'Enfant du Tchad The Infant of Chad Ethnographic short 1972 A la Découverte du Tchad Discovering Chad 1994 Maral Tanié Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Drama Short Un Taxi pour Aouzou A Taxi for Aouzou Issa Serge Coelo Drama Short 1995 Goï-Goï Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Drama Short Dilemme au Féminin Female Dilemma Zara Mahamat Yacoub Drama TV film 1999 Bye Bye Africa Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Drama 2000 Daresalam Let There Be Peace Issa Serge Coelo War drama 2002 Abouna Our Father Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Drama 2005 Addabache Djay Wara Abakar Chene Massar Drama 2006 Daratt Dry Season Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Drama DP75: Tartina City Issa Serge Coelo Drama Kalala Mahamat Saleh Haroun Documentary 2009 Le Pèlerin de Camp Nou Captain Majid (a literal translation would be The Pilgrim of Camp Nou) Abakar Chene Massar Drama La Deliverance Richard Hunt Documentary 2010 Un homme qui crie A Screaming Man Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Drama 2013 GriGris Drama 2015 Parler de Rose, Prisonnière de Hissène Habré Talking with Rose, Prisoner of Hissène Habré Isabel Coixet Documentary Spanish doc shot in Chad 2017 Hissein Habré, une Tragédie Tchadienne Hissène Habré, a Chadian Tragedy Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Documentary Co-produced by Senegal, France, Netherlands and the United Kingdom 2021 Lingui, les liens sacrés Lingui, The Sacred Bonds Drama
See also
Culture of Chad List of African films
External links Chadian film at the Internet Movie Database
References