Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s “Lingui, The Sacred Bonds,” a slow burn from the Chadian filmmaker, operates through a deceptively simple premise: A single mother living on the modest outskirts of N’djamena, Chad watches her 15-year old daughter emotionally withdraw only to discover she’s pregnant.
In a Muslim country where single motherhood is already frowned upon. And abortion illegal. Both mother and daughter are forced to navigate their patriarchal society in a bid for self-affirmation and survival.
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