Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1961, Abéché, Chad
- Movies
- 25
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 Movies
Filmography
| 2008 | Mambéty For Ever | Self |
| 2003 | Bye Bye Africa | Haroun |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars | Director, Screenplay |
| 2021 | Lingui, the Sacred Bonds | Director, Screenplay |
| 2019 | Lac | Director |
| 2019 | Interdependence | Director |
| 2018 | A Season in France | Director, Writer |
| 2016 | Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy | Director |
| 2013 | Grigris | Director, Writer |
| 2010 | A Screaming Man | Director, Screenplay |
| 2008 | Expectations | Director |
| 2008 | Sex, Okra & Salted Butter | Director, Writer |
| 2006 | Dry Season | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2006 | Kalala | Director |
| 2004 | Scenarios from Africa: African Solidarity | Director |
| 2004 | Scenarios from Africa: The Tree and the Wind | Director |
| 2003 | Bye Bye Africa | Writer, Director |
| 2002 | Our Father | Director, Writer |
| 2001 | Letter from New York | Director |
| 1998 | Un thé au sahel | Director |
| 1997 | B 400 | Director, Writer |
| 1996 | Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot | Director |
| 1995 | Bord' Africa | Director |
| 1995 | Goï-Goï | Director, Writer |
| 1994 | Maral tanié | Director, Writer |
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