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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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Part of 5 Essential Films from Chad

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