Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Achouackh Abakar • Director of and actress in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
"The film is about a woman bravely taking her destiny into her own hands, but also about a country where women help each other"
by Fabien Lemercier, Ana Stanic
CANNES 2021: The Chadian director is back in the Palme d'Or competition with his new film, which follows a woman surmounting social and religious taboos
Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is back in the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or competition with his new film Lingui, The Sacred Bonds [+see also:
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