"Timbuktu” is a 2014 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. The film takes place in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Mali, which is occupied by extremist jihadists. The film explores the lives of the ...

His 2006 film Bamako drew attention for its bold critique of global economic institutions, but it was 2014’s Timbuktu that ...

In 2014 his “Timbuktu,” a cri de coeur against fundamentalist ... including best director and best film. In 2023, Cissé also won the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Carrosse d’Or award ...

Released in May 2015, Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako's Cannes-winner Timbuktu arrived as one ... Malian city of the title. Sissako's movie balances brutality with visual poetry ...