Movie: Timbuktu
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Date:
Apr 1, 2015 6:30pm
Organized by: Zawya
Venue: Zawya
Address: 15 Emad El Deen St, Cairo, Egypt
Event Language: English and Arabic
Website: www.facebook.com/events/545704322235978/


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

 

Directed by: Abderrahmane Sissako
Duration: 97
Country: France/Mauritania
Language: French, Arabic, Bambara, English, Songhai
Subtitles: English and Arabic