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still Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, TD/FR/DE/BE 2021)

Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun / TD, FR, DE, BE, 2021 / 87 min.

15-year-old Maria becomes pregnant and decides to go all out for an abortion, with help from her mother, Amina. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s seventh fiction feature is a subtle ode to the hidden solidarity of women’s networks in a strongly Islamic, strictly patriarchal society.

poster Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, TD/FR/DE/BE 2021)

N’Djamena, Chad. Thirty-year-old single mother Amina works day and night to make ends meet. When one day her daughter, 15-year-old Maria, stops going to school and starts behaving peevishly, it turns out that the girl is pregnant. What to do?

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Persons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adultScenes from this movie may cause fearThis movie contains scenes of explicit discrimination

Director

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Production year

2021

Country

TD, FR, DE, BE

Original title

Lingui

Length

87 min.

Language

French

Subtitles

ENG or NLD

Format

DCP

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still Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, TD/FR/DE/BE 2021)
still Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, TD/FR/DE/BE 2021)
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