Tag Archives: Africa enters Cannes with homage to Chad ´heroines´

CANNES: Africa took centre stage at the Cannes festival on Thursday with a film celebrating Chadian women who navigate religious dogma and male domination with courage, ruses and female solidarity. “Lingui” by Cannes veteran Mahamat Saleh Haroun is the main competition´s only entry from sub-Saharan Africa, and tells the story of a pregnant teenager in the poor outskirts of Chad´s …

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