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Abouna (2002)
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Having considered the impressions of a returning exile in Bye Bye Africa, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun examines the plight of those left behind by migrant workers in this wry, occasionally tragic, but ultimately optimistic study of life on the Chad-Cameroon border. Dispelling the sub-Saharan cinematic myth of towns having a purely negative impact on families and communities, the film also dares to be gently critical of conditions in the strict Koranic school to which teenager Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa and his asthmatic younger brother Hamza Moctar Aguid are sent when they begin misbehaving in the absence of their father. As a result, Haroun's political, cultural and domestic observations have a greater ring of truth. DP
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Running time
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80min
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Country of origin
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Chad / Fr
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Genre
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Drama
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Alternate title
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Our Father
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Original language
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Chad Arabic
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Screenplay
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
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Theatrical distributor
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ICA Projects
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UK cinema certificate
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PG
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UK cinema release date
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November 2002
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UK video release date
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August 2003
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Subtitling information
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In Chad Arabic with subtitles
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