Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

2021 film

  • 8 July 2021 (2021-07-08) (Cannes)
Running time
87 minutesCountriesFrance
Chad
Germany
BelgiumLanguagesFrench
Chadian ArabicBox office$37,393[1]

Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (French: Lingui, les liens sacrés)[2] is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun.[3] In June 2021, the film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5] It was selected as the Chadian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.[6] It also won IFFI ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal at the 52nd International Film Festival of India

Plot

On the outskirts of N'Djamena in Chad, Amina lives alone with her only 15-year-old daughter 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.

Cast

  • Achouackh Abakar Souleymane as Amina
  • Rihane Khalil Alio as Maria
  • Youssouf Djaoro as Brahim

Release

Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the film's distribution rights for the US, UK, Turkey, Latin America and Ireland were acquired by MUBI.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Lingui (2022)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Cannes Competition Contender 'Lingui, The Sacred Bonds' Snapped Up by Mubi for North America, U.K. & More". Variety. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Lingui". Cineuropa. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Sean Penn, Wes Anderson, Ildikó Enyedi Join 2021 Cannes Lineup". The Hollywood Reporter. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Cannes Film Festival 2021 Lineup: Sean Baker, Wes Anderson, and More Compete for Palme d'Or". IndieWire. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Oscars International Race 2021: Complete List of Entries". The Wrap. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  7. ^ Welk, Brian (13 July 2021). "'Lingui, The Sacred Bonds' Acquired by MUBI Out of Cannes". TheWrap. Retrieved 14 July 2021.

External links

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2015-present (Best Film)
  • Cinemawala (2015)
  • Cold of Kalandar (2016)
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  • Walking With the Wind (2018)
  • Rwanda (2019)
  • 200 Meters (2020)
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  • Nargesi (2022)
  • Drift (2023)
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Films directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun