Dry Season (2006 film)

Dry Season
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Arabic	Daratt
Directed by	Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Written by	Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Produced by	Abderrahmane Sissako Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Starring	Ali Bacha Barkaïm Djibril Ibrahim Aziza Hisseine Khayar Oumar Defallah Fatimé Hadje and Youssouf Djaoro
Cinematography	Abraham Haile Biru
Edited by	Marie-Hélène Dozo
Music by	Wasis Diop
Release date	27 December 2006 (2006-12-27)
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	France Belgium Chad Austria
Languages	Arabic French
Budget	€1,503,903[1]

Dry Season Arabic: دارات, romanized: Daratt; French: Saison sèche) is a 2006 film by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun.

The film was one of seven films from non-Western cultures commissioned by Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival to commemorate the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Inspiration for the themes of revenge and reconciliation was taken from Mozart's La clemenza di Tito.

Darratt won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as eight other prizes at Venice and the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou.