East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Villa Albertine, Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, Institute of African Studies, Alliance Program, School of Social Work, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Registration is required and can be found here.
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2022, Drama, 87 min.
In French and Chadian Arabic with English Subtitles
Q&A with Abosede A. George, Venus Mahmoodi, and Emi Schlosser
On the outskirts of N’djamena in Chad, Amina lives alone with her only daughter, 15-year-old Maria. Her already fragile world collapses the day she discovers that her daughter is pregnant. The teenager does not want this pregnancy. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost in advance.
CINEMANIA Francophone Film Festival 2021
Cannes International Film Festival 2021
Born in Abéché, Chad, in 1960, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun studied film in Paris, then journalism in Bordeaux. After having worked several years for various local newspapers, he directed his first short film Maria Tanié in 1994. In 1999, his first feature film, Bye-bye Africa, was selected at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Best First Film award. He then made Abouna (Our Father) in 2002 and Daratt, Dry Season (Special Jury Prize, Venice 2006). In 2010, A Screaming Man won the Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival and was awarded the Robert Bresson Prize at the Venice Film Festival and in 2011, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was a member of the Official Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
Abosede George is Tow Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Barnard. Her book, Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development received the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize in 2015 from the Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association, as well as Honorable Mention from the New York African Studies Association.
Venus Mahmoodi is Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at CUIMC and part of the Women and Reproductive Mental Health Program. She is also Clinical Researcher at the Early N3 Lab at CUIMC, and Lab Director at Muslim Perinatal Lab at Teachers College.
Emilie Schlosser is the 2024-2025 intern at Columbia Maison Française.
