| Ali Bacha
Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro , Aziza Hisseine , Djibril Ibrahim, Mahamat
Saïd Abakar , Fatime Hadje
African filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh
Haroun directed this lyrical tale of young man's desire to come
to terms with his tragic past. Ali Barkai plays a young man from
the nation of Chad whose father was killed before he was born. Looking
for some sort of closure in his life, the young man decides to find
the man who murdered his father; when he does, he gets a job working
for the killer, at once pondering vengeance but also struggling
to come to a place of forgiveness. Daratt received its world premiere
at the 2006 Venice Film Festival.
Drama set in postwar Chad
in 2006. Gumar Abatcha (Khayar Oumar Defallah) is outraged by the
news that the government is granting amnesties to war criminals.
He gives his grandson, Atim (Ali Barkai), the gun that once belonged
to Atim's father so that he may use it to avenge his father's death.
It doesn't take him long to find his father's slayer, Nassara (Youssouf
Djaoro), who is now married, religiously devout and the owner of
a small bakery. Under the guise of looking for work, Atim becomes
Nassara's apprentice. Now that he is in Nassara's employ, it will
be easy for Atim to exact his revenge but a strange bond begins
to develop between the boy and the baker... |