Dry Season

2006. Chad. Screenplay by Mahamat Saleh Haroun. After a forty-year civil war, the Chadian government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Outraged by the news he hears on the radio, Gumar Abatcha orders his sixteen-year-old grandson Atim to trace and execute the man who killed his father. Atim finds that the former war criminal Nassara has settled down with a wife, goes to the mosque, and owns a small bakery. When Nassara hires Atim as his apprentice baker, the narrative moves to areas rarely captured in films, exploring the relationship between murderer and avenger. In Chadian Arabic; English subtitles. 84 min.