Abouna (Arabic: أبونا, romanized: ‘Abūna, English: "Our Father") is a 2002 film by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun and is the story of two young brothers' search for their father.
Two boys (Tahir and Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family.
While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to examine the frames.
Their mother (Achta) eventually despairs and sends them to Koranic school.
Unhappy, they plan their escape until the eldest boy falls in love with a deaf girl (Khalil) Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa, who played the 15-year-old Tahir, was offered a choice of boys to play his younger brother Amine.