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CANNES 2021 Competition

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Achouackh Abakar • Director of and actress in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

"The film is about a woman bravely taking her destiny into her own hands, but also about a country where women help each other"

by Fabien Lemercier, Ana Stanic

CANNES 2021: The Chadian director is back in the Palme d'Or competition with his new film, which follows a woman surmounting social and religious taboos

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Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is back in the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or competition with his new film Lingui, The Sacred Bonds [+see also:
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, which follows a woman surmounting social and religious taboos. Accompanied by the film's lead actress Achouackh Abakar, he talked to us about it.

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