Daratt (Dry Season)

D: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad/France 2006, 95 min, German subtitles

A parable on the vicious circle of violence and the (im)possibility of forgiveness in Chad in the aftermath of the civil war. Atim, who has a revolver in his pocket, starts working for the man who killed his father. However, he finds it far more difficult to put his plan into operation than he had originally imagined. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: ‘I’m interested in the landscape after a storm; in life that stubbornly goes on amidst great expanses of ruins and scorched earth.’ Special Jury Prize in Venice.