Joachim Lafosse : 2015
The White Knights

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphans, victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention. Inspired by the events of the L'Arche de Zoé controversy in 2007, which involved a French charity organisation that attempted to bring 103 children into France from Chad. Joachim Lafosse's feature premiered in competition in the Platform section at Toronto International Film Festival 2015.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun : 2010
A Screaming Man

Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the "war effort", giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's beautifully shot, powerful drama was the winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes 2010.