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  • 2017
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2017
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habre's arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims of the Hissein Habre Regime, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived this tragedy and who still bear the scars of the horror in thei...

Directed By: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

  • 2017
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2017
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 22 m

Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy

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Summary In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habre's arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims of the Hissein Habre Regime, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived this tragedy and who still bear the scars of the horror in thei...

Directed By: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

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100
Sep 21, 2017
Over the course of its simple, unadorned 82 minutes, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Hissein Habré: A Chadian Tragedy wrecks you in ways you might not have known were possible.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 21, 2017
[A] concise, clearly told and deeply effective documentary.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 21, 2017
By focusing his camera on those “half-men, completely broken” by Habre’s reign and allowing them to tell their stories, Haroun is helping his country to finally mourn its own tragedy, while his warm and understanding approach offers up what feels like a path toward appeasement.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 21, 2017
Haroun journeys through the country and films his travels to meet with the regime’s victims. He brings a profound compassion and a controlled rage to accounts of moral obscenities, while also recording accounts of deep solidarity among the victims, even under terrifying circumstances.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 21, 2017
It’s more of a document than a documentary; calling it cinema seems like an error of categorization.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARTE, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Fonds Images de la Francophonie, Goï Goï Productions, IDFA Bertha Fund, Idfa Bertha Fund Europe, La Région Île-de-France, Pili Films, TV5MONDE, The Bertha Foundation
Release Date Sep 21, 2017
Duration 1 h 22 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
CPH:DOX
• 1 Nomination
Carthage Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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