Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Haroun at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Born1961 (age 63–64)
N'Djamena, Chad
OccupationFilm director
Awards1999: Best first film award at the Venice Film Festival for Bye Bye Africa

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (French pronunciation: [ma.ama sale aʁun]; Arabic: محمد الصالح هارون) was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a film director from Chad. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both writes and directs his films. Though he has lived in France since 1982, most of his films have been set in and made in Chad.

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