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  "path": "/2026/film/global/mahamat-saleh-haroun-berlin-golden-bear-contender-soumsoum-the-night-of-the-stars-1236654233/",
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  "textContent": "Since arriving on the world cinema stage with the deeply personal docudrama “Bye Bye Africa” (1999), Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has been at the forefront of a generation of filmmakers who have landed African cinema squarely on the map. Despite emigrating to France in the 1980s, at the height of Chad’s devastating civil war, he’s […]",
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