A Screaming Man is a film set in Chad and written and directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, was born in Chad in 1960, the year the country became independent from France. He left Chad two decades later after a succession of civil wars and other strife had torn the country asunder. The film has been well receiwed, including a rave from The New York Times. Here is an excerpt from Manohla Dargis’ Times review:
“A Screaming Man” is a quiet, tender, finally wrenching story of an individual at the intersection of the personal and the political. It’s a modest film, if only in scale and apparent budget, about some of the greatest questions in life, like the existence of God, our capacity to see beyond our own vanity and the legacies of fathers, both blood and state.
Most of us will likely have to see A Screaming Man via dvd or online, as its release appears to be quite limited, but it certainly seems worth tracking down.
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