Dry Season (2006 film)

Dry Season
Poster
ArabicDaratt
Directed byMahamat Saleh Haroun
Written byMahamat Saleh Haroun
Produced byAbderrahmane Sissako
Mahamat Saleh Haroun
StarringAli Bacha Barkaïm
Djibril Ibrahim
Aziza Hisseine
Khayar Oumar Defallah
Fatimé Hadje and
Youssouf Djaoro
CinematographyAbraham Haile Biru
Edited byMarie-Hélène Dozo
Music byWasis Diop
Release date
  • 27 December 2006 (2006-12-27)
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
Chad
Austria
LanguagesArabic
French
Budget1,503,903[1]

Dry Season Arabic: دارات, romanizedDaratt; French: Saison sèche) is a 2006 film by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun.

The film was one of seven films from non-Western cultures commissioned by Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival to commemorate the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Inspiration for the themes of revenge and reconciliation was taken from Mozart's La clemenza di Tito.

Darratt won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as eight other prizes at Venice and the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou.

  1. ^ Daratt, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs