Abouna [videorecording] / Duo Films et Goči-Goči Productions prâesentent ; un film de Mahamet-Saleh Haroun ; scâenario et râealisation, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun ; producteur deleguâe, Guillaume de Seille. - [Chatsworth, Calif.] : Home Vision Entertainment, [2005] - 1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002. Special features: Digital transfer; interview with director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun; film shorts by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Goči Goči, B 400; original theatrical trailer; liner notes by film critic Phil Hall.

Special features: Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions -- Interview with director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun -- Film shorts by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: GOI, GOI, B 400 -- Original theatrical trailer -- Liner notes by film critic Phil Hall (Film Threat, Wired Magazine) -- Language: Chad Arabic -- Subtitles: English.

Director of photography, Abraham Haile Biru ; editor, Sarah Taouss Matton ; music, Diego Moustapha Ngarade. Director of photography, Abraham Haile Biru ; editor, Sarah Taouss Matton ; music, Diego Moustapha Ngarade.

Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa, Hamza Moctar Aguid, Zara Haroun, Mounira Khalil, Kously Lamko.

After two young Chadian boys discover their father has abandoned them, they embark on a desperate quest to bring him home. They spend their days trying to find him, skipping school, and already a handful for their overburdened mother, the boys are shipped off to a strict Koranic school for discipline.


DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.


In Chad Arabic with French credits and optional English subtitles.

0780029933 9780780029934

037429206027

ABO010 Home Vision Entertainment


Boys--Chad--Drama.
Fathers and sons--Chad--Drama.
Mothers and sons--Chad--Drama.
Single parents--Chad--Drama.


Chad--Drama.

Aba§ wa-awlad Drama


Feature films.
Feature films--Chad.
Feature films--France.
Foreign films.
Foreign language films--Arabic.

CM DVD 01252

791.43/72