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Daratt (Dry Season) 
Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun Produced by Abderrahmane Sissako
Mahamat Saleh HarounWritten by Mahamat Saleh Haroun Starring Ali Bacha Barkaïm
Aziza Hisseine
Khayar Oumar Defallah
Fatimé Hadje and
Youssouf DjaoroMusic by Wasis Diop Cinematography Abraham Haile Biru Editing by Marie-Hélène Dozo Release date(s) 27 December 2006 Running time 96 minutes Language Arabic, French Budget €1,503,903[1] Daratt (English: "Dry Season", French: "Saison sèche") is a 2006 film by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun.
The film was one of seven films from non-Western cultures commissioned by Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival to commemorate the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Inspiration for the themes of revenge and reconciliation was taken from Mozart's La clemenza di Tito.
Darratt won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as eight other prizes at Venice and the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou.
Synopsis
Atim (Ali Bacha Barkai) is sent to kill Nassara (Youssouf Djaoro) (right)
Set in the wake of the long Chadian civil war, 16-year-old Atim (Ali Bacha Barkai) is sent by his grandfather to the city to kill Nassara (Youssouf Djaoro), the man who murdered his father before Atim's birth. Atim, carrying his father's gun, finds Nassara running a bakery. Unexpectedly, the taciturn Nassara takes Atim under his wing as the son he never had and begins teaching him how to run the bakery. The emotionally conflicted Atim is drawn into the life of Nassara and his pregnant wife (Aziza Hisseine), before a finale that Variety described as "sharp, fast and unexpected."[2]
Notes and references
- ^ Daratt, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- ^ Dry Season by Deborah Young, Variety, September 1, 2006
External links
Categories:- 2006 films
- Films based on operas
- Chadian films
- Films directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
- Films set in Chad
- African film stubs
- Chad stubs
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