Chad’s Civil War in Venice
September 2nd, 2006 by Andre Soares
"I don’t know how many people in this room have seen a man being executed at point blank. I did when I was 16.
"I was there [in Chad] when the civil war started. You find that your neighbor who lives next door and had never given you a reason to be suspicious grabs a gun and transforms himself."
That’s director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, speaking to reporters after the Venice Film Festival screening of the sociopolitical drama Daratt / Dry Season, one of the 21 films competing for the Golden Lion.
More on Daratt at Reuters/The Scotsman.
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