Director Haroun in race for Palme d'Or: 'Chad's feminist revolution will come'

Set in the outskirts of N'Djamena, Chad, the film "Lingui", by director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, tells the story of an adolescent whose unwanted pregnancy puts her in conflict with her country's laws and traditions. Haroun lives in France, but most of his films were produced in Chad, his country of birth, which he left during the unrest of the 1980s. He spoke to FRANCE 24.