Cinema of Chad
Year Title Director Genre Notes
1958 The Roots of Heaven John Huston Drama , action American film partly shot in Chad
1960 Les Tonnes de l'Audace - Mission Ténéré Tchad René Quinet & Louis Sommet Documentary
1966 Pêcheurs du Chari Edouard Sailly Ethnographic short English title : Fishers of the Chari
1966 Le Lac Tchad Edouard Sailly Ethnographic short English title : Lake Chad
1966 Salam el Kebir Edouard Sailly Ethnographic short
1966 Les Abattoirs de Forchia Edouard Sailly Ethnographic short English title : The Abattoirs of Forchia
1966 Largeau Edouard Sailly Ethnographic short
1967 Le Troisième Jour Edouard Sailly Drama , short English title : The Third Day
1969 L'Enfant du Tchad Edouard Sailly Ethnographic short English title : The Infant of Chad
1972 A la Découverte du Tchad Edouard Sailly Ethnographic short English title : Discovering Chad
1994 Maral Tanié Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Short
1994 Un Taxi pour Aouzou Issa Serge Coelo Drama short
1995 Goï-Goï Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Drama short
1995 Dilemme au Féminin Zara Mahamat Yacoub TV film English title : Female Dilemma
1999 Bye Bye Africa Mahamat Saleh Haroun Drama
2000 Daresalam Issa Serge Coelo War Drama English title : Let There Be Peace
2002 Abouna Mahamat Saleh Haroun Drama English title : Our Father
2005 Addabache Djay Wara Abakar Chene Massar Drama
2006 Daratt Mahamat Saleh Haroun Drama English title : Dry Season
2006 DP75 : Tartina City Issa Serge Coelo Drama
List of Chadian films
The following is a sortable list of films produced or shot in Chad . [ 12 ] [ 13 ]
The Cinema of Chad is small though growing. The first film made in the country appears to have been 1958 John Huston adventure film The Roots of Heaven, filmed when the country was still a part of French Equatorial Africa. Documentary filmmaker Edouard Sailly made a series of shorts in the 1960s depicting daily life in the country. During this period there were a number of cinemas in the country, including in N'Djamena Le Normandie, Le Vogue, the Rio, the Étoile and the Shéherazade, and also the Rex in Sarh, the Logone in Moundou and the Ciné Chachati in Abéché. The film industry suffered severely in the 1970s-80s as Chad became engulfed in a series of civil wars and foreign military interventions; film production stopped, and all the cinemas in Chad closed down. Following the ousting of dictator Hissène Habré by Idriss Déby in 1990 the situation in the country stabilised somewhat, allowing the development of a nascent film industry, most notably with the work of directors Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Issa Serge Coelo and Abakar Chene Massar. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has won awards at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Venice International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. In January 2011 Le Normandie in N'Djamena, said to now be the only cinema in Chad, re-opened with government support.