An Islamic extremist can't summon the necessary fervor while making a video hailing the jihadi cause in a scene from "Timbuktu," an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film that is based on ...

US movie audiences have usually met jihadists through the lenses of American sniper rifles, or lying prone in front of CIA interrogators. "Timbuktu" is hardly the only movie that's portrayed them ...

CANNES, France (AP) — It was all too much for the director of Timbuktu, a touching humanist account of the jihadist takeover of Northern Mali in 2012. Abderrahmane Sissako broke down in tears at ...

Film Review: ‘Timbuktu’ Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (competing), May 14, 2014. Running time: 96 MIN. Production: (Mauritania-France) A Les Films du Worso, Dune Vision, Arches Film, Arte ...

In the film Timbuktu, Kidane (played by Ibrahim Ahmed, center) and his wife live in a tent on a dune outside the city with their daughter (played by Layla Walet Mohamed, right) and a boy orphaned ...

Abderrahmane Sissako's film was inspired by the seizure of the Malian city by Islamist fighters in 2012. It has won international accolades with its lyrical beauty and critique of religious extremism.

Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s new, Oscar-nominated film, Timbuktu, is a gorgeously simple take on a madly complex subject: the 2012 descent of Islamist militants upon Mali.The ...

Watch a film clip from "Timbuktu," starring Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri and Toulou Kiki. Photo/Video: Cohen Media Of the many astonishing passages in “Timbuktu,” the most memorable, and ...

”Timbuktu” is now playing at Film Forum and the Lincoln Plaza Cinema in New York, the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles and the Sundance Kabuki in San Francisco. It opens Feb. 6 in Boca Raton, ...

Cannes: ‘Timbuktu’ Director Abderrahmane Sissako to Head Student, Short Films Jury. The filmmaker behind the 2014 Cannes competition entry nominated for the best foreign-language film this ...

US movie audiences have usually met jihadists through the lenses of American sniper rifles, or lying prone in front of CIA interrogators. "Timbuktu" is hardly the only movie that's portrayed them ...