Title of film : Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Director Name : Mahamat Saleh Haroun
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Producer : Florence Stern
Editor : Marie Helene Dozo
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Synopsis : Thirty-year-old Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives alone with her only child, the fifteen-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is not only pregnant but wishes to abort the child, the two women face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
Director Bio : Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was born in Abéché, Chad. He studied at Conservatoire libre du cinéma in Paris. His features “Bye Bye Africa” (1999), “Abouna” (2002), “Dry Season” (2006), “A Screaming Man” (2010), “Hissein Habré: The Chadian Tragedy”(2016), and “A Season in France” (2017) have all screened at the Festival. “Lingui, The Sacred Bonds” (2021) is his latest film.
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