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3.9/5 Mubi Written by Mahamat Saleh Haroun Initial release September 1999 Budget 100,000 USD | 6.5/10 IMDb Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun Edited by Sarah Taouss Matton Director Mahamat Saleh Haroun Screenplay Mahamat Saleh Haroun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Mahamat Saleh HarounGarba IssaAïcha YelenaAbakar Mahamat-Saleh Music by Al-hadj Ahmat dit Pecos,Issa Bongo,Ringo Efoua-Ela Cinematography Stephane Legoux, Mahamat Saleh Haroun Awards Luigi De Laurentiis Award – Special Mention Similar Abouna, Dry Season, A Screaming Man, GriGris, Colonel Bunker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bye bye africa
Bye Bye Africa is a 1999 award winning Chadian film. It was the first by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun, who also starred. The docu-drama centers on a fictionalized version of Haroun.
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Plot
A Chadian film director who lives and works in France (Haroun) returns home upon the death of his mother. He is shocked at the degraded state of the country and the national cinema. Encountering skepticism from his family members about his chosen career, Haroun tries to defend himself by quoting Jean-Luc Godard: "The cinema creates memories." The filmmaker decides to make a film dedicated to his mother entitled Bye Bye Africa but immediately encounters major problems. Cinemas have closed and financing is impossible to secure. The director reunites with an old girlfriend (Yelena), who was shunned by Chadians who could not distinguish between film and reality after appearing in one of his previous films as an HIV victim. Haroun learns about the destruction of the African cinema from directors in neighboring countries, but also finds Issa Serge Coelo shooting his first film, Daressalam. Things go badly and, convinced that it is impossible to make films in Africa, Haroun departs Chad in despair, leaving his film camera to a young boy who had been assisting him.
Awards
The film won the following awards: