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KIDS - SCREENINGS 2004/2005 |
OUR FATHER
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Original Title |
Abouna |
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Director |
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun |
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Genre |
Drama |
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Country of origin |
France/Chad/Netherlands |
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Language spoken |
French/Arabic |
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Year of production |
2002 |
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Production |
Commission Européenne |
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Domestic distribution/World Sales |
Filmmuseum Distributie (Netherlands)
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Domestic release |
19 March 2003 (France) |
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Official website |
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Awards |
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2003 (Firebird Award Special Mention - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) Kerala International Film Festival 2003 (FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Crow Pheasant - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival 2003 (Baobab Seed Award, Best Cinematography) INALCO Award (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) UNICEF Award for Childhood (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) |
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Suggested by |
Alessandra Speciale – Artistic Director of the African Film Festival (Italy) |
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Release date |
Country |
Distributor |
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22 November 2002 |
United Kingdom |
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18 September 2003 |
Netherlands |
Filmmuseum Distributie |
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29 April 2004 |
Germany |
Kairos Filmverleih |
| SYNOPSIS Life in a small community in the African nation of Chad is vividly evoked in the year’s most widely acclaimed African film. The story of two brothers, aged 15 and eight, whose lives are changed when their father leaves without saying a word, Haroun’s film is both touching and almost perversely optimistic. When their father fails to appear for their amateur soccer match, the two boys are devastated. Alarmed that they are out of control, their mother sends them to a Koranic school where the strict mullahs make daunting substitutes for their absent father. Beautiful and quietly observant, the film celebrates their insouciant pleasure in a less than kind world. |