The Cinema of Chad is small though growing. The first film made in the country appears to have been 1958

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adventure film '' The Roots of Heaven'', filmed when the country was still a part of French Equatorial Africa. Documentary filmmaker

Edouard Sailly Edouard Sailly is a pioneering Chadian film director, "the first filmmaker in Chad". Life Sailly trained in France with Actualités Françaises. In the 1960s and early 1970s he made a series of short, mostly ethnographic, documentary films. Fil ...

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

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, 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 Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (; ar, محمد الصالح هارون) was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a film director from Chad. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both wri ...

Issa Serge Coelo Issa Serge Coelo (born 1967) is a Chadian film director. Born in Biltine, Chad, Biltine, Chad, he studied history in Paris and film at the École supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle (ÉSRA). He then worked as a cameraman at Métropole Tél ...

and

Abakar Chene Massar Abakar is a Chadian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abanga Abakar (born 1994), Chadian football player * Mahamat Issa Abakar (born 1984), Chadian football player * M'Bairo Abakar (born 1961), Chadian judoka * Oumar Abakar (b ...

. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has won awards at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou,

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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.

List of Chadian films

The following is a sortable list of films produced or shot in Chad.Various (2000) ''Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire'', Editions Karthala, p. 407

External links

Chadian film
at the Internet Movie Database

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List of Chadian films

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