Mahamat-Saleh Haroun - Abouna ('Our Father') (2002)

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun - Abouna ('Our Father') (2002)
733 MB | 1:20:38 | French/Arabic with Eng. s/t | XviD, 1015 Kb/s | 704x384

From a dusty village in the Republic of Chad, two brothers, Amine and Tahir-, set out in search of their father. Reflecting on the rhythm of Africa, Abouna is a film rich in culture with a deep understanding of the human condition in general and youth in particular. This devastatingly powerful, magnificently photographed drama is director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's triumphant follow-up to his international award-winning Bye Bye Africa. Image Ent.




The lives of two brothers, who live in N'djamena, are upended when they awake one Saturday morning to find that their father has left the family. They are Amine, about eight years old, playful and asthmatic, and Tahir, 15, handsome, quiet, his brother's protector. The boys go in search of their father, and find only trouble. Dad's leaving also debilitates their mother. The movies, a musical uncle, a village Koran school, a poster of a Moroccan beach, and a young deaf woman figure in the resolution. Is there any place for happiness, or is happiness only in storybooks?




Abouna is a gently heartbreaking look at the lives of two boys growing up impoverished and fatherless in Chad. Filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun mixes in telling bits of documentary realism with his story of the two boys' lackadaisical search for their father. The filmmaker takes his time with the tale, lingering on details, like a long shot of the two boys meandering across a field, roughhousing and walking on their hands. Haroun also pointedly displays posters for Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, Idrissa Ouedraogo's Yaaba, and Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise outside the little movie theater that the boys visit. Perhaps this is a name-dropping way of letting the audience see his influences, but the signs are there in his filmmaking, too. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide




The plot gets much more dramatic when their frustrated mother (Zara Haroun) sends Amine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) off to a strict Islamic boarding school. While the boys are treated severely there and beaten when they attempt to escape, their plight is not depicted in a melodramatic fashion. There's always a sense of life unfolding in the film. Haroun's two young leads do exceptional work, particularly Aguid as the sickly younger boy. Abouna isn't especially thrilling, either in its technique or its story line. But it's an effectively low-key and moving work, with moments of goodhearted humor that make it enjoyable, despite the grimness of its setting. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide




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