Our Father

Name: Our Father
Genre: Drama
Released: February 20, 2004
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 70

2004

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Leisure Time Features | Release Date: February 20, 2004

Summary: Set in the sub-Saharan country of Chad, this is the story of two young brothers and their mother who are devastated when their father suddenly disappears.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 84 min

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Phil Hall

Truly magnificent. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Poignant though it is, the movie is the opposite of depressing. There is too much life in it. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Haroun is deft at handling the joys and pain of childhood. He neither condescends nor over-sentimentalizes. It is a story of separation anxiety (for Amine) and coming of age (for Tahir) and it's universal. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Abouna starkly defines the masculine and feminine influence in raising children, and what happens when they're not so complementary. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Haroun and cinematographer Abraham Haile Biru carefully frame their characters with a painterly elegance that is at times truly startling. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

The story of the film is a quiet local tale; the directing is sophisticated. Read full review

Megan Lehmann

This modest little film out of Africa suffers from largely rudderless direction, relying for any sense of profundity on the breathtaking beauty of Abraham Haile Biru's cinematography. Read full review

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M.Daye

Feb 4, 2006

Sometimes silence can say so much more than blocks of mawkish dialogue. Brilliantly-acted and wonderfully shot.

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Bambey

Aug 8, 2022

Easily the greatest African movie of all time. Ask the Guardian magazine if you don't think so!

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