Timbuktu
(2014)
★ 7 IMDb · 524 votes
Year: 2014
Runtime: 96 мин
Country: France
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Cast: Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Абель Жафри, Kettly Noël, Hichem Yacoubi, Mehdi A.G. Mohamed, Fatoumata Diawara, Adel Mahmoud Cherif, Salem Dendou
Plot
Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.
Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Mohamed), and Issan (Mehdi Ag Mohamed), 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 abruptly.