2002 · drama · chadian · african
Abouna
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun1h 24m2002
Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to examine the frames. Their mother (Achta) eventually despairs and sends them to Koranic school. Unhappy, they plan their escape until the eldest boy falls in love with a deaf girl (Khalil).
Our read: Abouna (2002) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · chadian · african entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / chadian, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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