Abouna

[Available March 21 via streaming on MUBI.] When their irresponsible father (Koulsy Lamko) leaves them for Tangiers in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's award-winning, riveting, well-acted, 84-minute, 2002 film, two brothers (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa and Hamza Moctar Aguid) in Chad begin a frantic search to find him, which leads to a minor scuffle with the law and their apprehensive mother (Zara Haroun) enrolling them in an Islamic school.
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