Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was born in 1960 in Chad. He studied film in Paris and journalism in Bordeaux. After writing for several years for many regional dailies, he wrote and directed his first short film Maral Tanié in 1994. In 2006, he won the Special Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival for his third feature, Daratt, A dry season. In the same year, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York paid tribute to Haroun by hosting a retrospective of his films. In 2010, his fourth feature, A Screaming Man, won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In the same year, he garnered the prestigious Robert Bresson Award at the Venice Film Festival, and the Premio Humanidade at the 34th Mostra in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was a member of the Jury for the main competition at the Festival de Cannes in 2011. Shot in Chad in 2012, Grigris is his fifth feature.

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