Daratt

Guardian, UK, July 27, 2007

It is a story of anger and violence, which marries up a personal story of rage with Africa in general and Chad in particular, where a civil war has raged for decades and whose cycle of slaughter and counter-slaughter can only be brought to a halt when its victims make the agonising decision to forgive - or at any rate to forget. Ali-Bacha Barkai plays Atim, a young guy angry at the world. His father was killed before he was born by a notoriously brutal soldier, Nassara (Yousouf Djaoro), who has been granted amnesty from any charge of war crimes, and Atim's blind grandfather (Khayar Oumar Defallah) presents Atim with a handgun and entrusts him with a sacred task: track down Nassara in the distant, dusty town of N'djamena, where he is working as a baker - and kill him......



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