Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

Easily the best film I've seen from Chad... This is a very good movie.

Another part is the state of their own connection -- frayed by harsh circumstance and in urgent need of repair. That repair work constitutes the heart of this beautiful film.

It’s an infuriating movie that will summon your own outrage.

Writer-director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun paints a world that can feel as vast as it is isolating...

[A] compelling though not exactly subtle drama...

As we tag along with Harouns characters, we learn to appreciate their story as a small, but vivid study of lives that are so much more than their progressive developments.

This is a film in which acts of kindness are quietly delivered on the understanding that that’s what we owe each other, and one where sisterhood is alive — making this, paradoxically, a simultaneously enraging and heartening watch.

In Lingui, the Sacred Bonds, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun presents a film of resilience and determination. He carefully exposes the many ways in which women are abused...

A love story between mother and daughter, and between multi-generational women, who unite in solidarity in the face of systematic abuse. [Full review in Spanish]

Deftly dodges fearmongering and victimization... prefers to adopt a celebratory attitude to pay homage to sisterhood and resistance, and to claim action against immoral norms. [Full review in Spanish]