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Timbuktu
Credits
Name: Timbuktu
Country: Mauretanien, Frankreich
Year of publication: 2014
Duration: 97 Minuten
Direction: Sissako, Abderrahmane
Screenplay: Sissako, Abderrahmane
Camera: El Fani, Sofiane
Editing: Ben Rachid, Nadia
Sound: Welsh, Philippe; Dymny, Roman; Delor, Thierry
Abstract
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd.
In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences.
Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered "GPS", his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.