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Lingui: The Sacred Bond
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Chad, France, Belgium, Germany
2021
87 mins


On the outskirts of N'Djamena in Chad, Amina lives alone with her only 15-year-old daughter, Maria. Her already fragile world collapses the day she discovers that her daughter is pregnant. The teenager does not want this pregnancy. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost in advance...
