A Screaming Man (French: Un homme qui crie) is a 2010 drama film by Mahamat Saleh Haroun,[1] starring Youssouf Djaoro and Diouc Koma.

[1] Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a former central African swimming champion, is the pool attendant at a luxury hotel.

As an economy measure Mrs. Wang, the manager, demotes him to gate security guard and his son Abdel is made pool attendant.

The local chief pressures Adam to give money towards Chad's fight against rebel forces, chastising him for not attending a cause meeting.

"[5] Mahamat Saleh Haroun intentionally resisted going into detail about the civil war in Chad and politics: "The film recounts the point of view of this character and he hasn't got a position with the rebels or the government; to his life the two forces are abstract and so it would not matter if he was for the rebels or the government as this would not stop the war.

On 13 April rebel forces entered N'Djamena, the Chadian capital, where Haroun was filming, and production was immediately put on hold.

The film crew, including the young lead actor who was turning 18 on the very day, were trapped in the desert with no means of communication.

[6] Many of the extras in the film were actual hotel employees, tourists and soldiers who Haroun asked to perform as themselves for the sake of realism.

It is especially annoying that the sequence with the exodus of N'Djamena's population well shows that the filmmaker can switch to grand format when his subject commands it.

"[14] Julien Welter of L'Express appreciated Haroun's choice of neither making a large-scale analysis of the conflict in Chad, nor a melodrama about the suffering it has brought.

Welter's main concern was that he thought the quality of the script dropped during the third act, but ended the review by proclaiming Haroun as "more than ever an artist to follow.