Cinema of Chad is small but growing. The first film made in the country was the 1958John Huston adventure filmThe Roots of Heaven, filmed when the country was still a part ofFrench Equatorial Africa.^[1] Documentary filmmakerEdouard Sailly made a series of shorts in the 1960s depicting daily life in the country.^[2] During this period there were a number of cinemas in the country, includingLe Normandie,Le Vogue, theRio, theÉtoile and theShéherazade inN'Djamena, theRex inSarh, theLogone inMoundou and theCiné Chachati inAbéché.^[3][4][5] The film industry suffered severely in the 1970s-80s as Chad became engulfed in a series of civil wars and foreign military interventions; film production stopped, and all the cinemas in Chad closed down. Following the ousting of dictatorHissène Habré byIdriss Déby in 1990 the situation in the country stabilised somewhat, allowing the development of a nascent film industry, most notably through the work of directorsMahamat-Saleh Haroun,Issa Serge Coelo andAbakar Chene Massar.^[6][7] Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has won awards at thePanafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou,Venice International Film Festival and theCannes Film Festival.^[8][9] In January 2011Le Normandie inN'Djamena, said now to be the only cinema in Chad, re-opened with government support.^[10][11]

The following is a sortable list of films produced or shot in Chad.^[12][13]

• Culture of Chad
• List of African films

• Chadian filmArchived 2008-03-07 at theWayback Machine at theInternet Movie Database

• Cinema of Chad
• Lists of mass media in Chad
• Chadian films
• Lists of African films

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