"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 ...

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 ...

This documentary demonstrates that Timbuktu was a leading cultural economic scientific and religious center that made a significant and lasting impact on Africa and ...