Dry Season

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Languages: Arabic, French

Year: 2006

Vote: 7

Festival & Award: Venice - Grand Jury Prize

Dry Season

The showmakers

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Overview

Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...

Indie vibes check

A film by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun that was produced independently with funding from multiple international sources, maintaining its indie status.

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