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DArAtt (Dry Season)

 

 

Produced, Written and Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun


Chad-Belgium-Austria-France 2006 / Drama / War / 95 min / Color / Dolby 5.1 /1.78: 1  Widescreen Anamorphic / PAL / In African with Optional English Subtitles



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...

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