A Screaming Man

It’s civil war in Chad. The aging champion swimmer, Adam, works at a hotel, in charge of the pool, with his son Abdel. Due to cutbacks, Adam is moved to the position of gatekeeper. When the resistance movement shows up demanding financial support, Adam realizes he must either find a way to make some fast money, or let his son be enlisted.

Most of us would scream our lungs out if we found ourselves in Adam’s shoes, but the title A Screaming Man is not to be taken literally; this is a quiet film about a quiet man. His love for the swimming pool is moving because it reminds him of his youth’s greatness, which is now taken away from him piece by piece. And soon his son may have to lose his youth to fight his father’s war.

A Screaming Man was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, where it received the Jury Prize, as the first Chadian film to win an award in Cannes.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (b. 1961, Chad) has made films in his home country since the mid-nineties. His first feature film was the documentary Bye Bye Africa (1999), which he both directed and starred in. In 2010 his film A Screaming Man won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Grigris was nominated for the Palme d´Or in 2013. Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy premiered in Cannes 2016.

Director conversation
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun will be present at the screening at Vika October 12, 7 p.m., at Klingenberg October 13, 1 p.m., and in Tancred later that day, 5.30 p.m. There will be Q&As with the director at all the screenings, and on the last one, he'll introduce the film himself!

Norwegian distribution by Arthaus