5 Best Movies from Chad to Watch First

5 Essential Films from Chad

Ranked native cinema in Chad’s own creative voice.

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   1. Bye Bye Africa

   1999

   A Chadian filmmaker living in France returns home after his mother's death and is shaken by the decay of his country and its cinema, resolving to make a film in her memory. A pioneering, reflexive work and one of Chad's first features, from Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.

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   2. Daratt

   2006

   After a forty-year civil war, Chad amnesties its war criminals — so a blind grandfather sends his teenage grandson to the capital to find and kill the man who murdered the boy's father. But the youth finds his target harder to hate than he expected. A spare, gripping drama.

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   3. A Screaming Man

   Un homme qui crie · 2010

   A proud former swimming champion who works as a hotel pool attendant loses his job to his own son amid economic cutbacks, and, pressured to prove his loyalty as war closes in, makes a wrenching choice. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's quietly devastating drama.

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   4. Daresalam

   2000

   Two childhood friends in Chad join a rebel movement against a corrupt government, but the long war and its compromises slowly drive them apart. A drama about idealism and disillusionment in armed struggle.

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   5. DP75: Tartina City

   N'djamena City · 2006

   In a fictional African dictatorship, a man returns from exile and is caught in the machinery of a brutal police state, confronting torture, betrayal, and the ghosts of his past. A Chadian political drama.