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 ...

The hypnotic and visually overwhelming "Timbuktu," the work of Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako and an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film, is an intimate and terrifying inquiry ...

Cannes: ‘Timbuktu’ Director Abderrahmane Sissako Breaks Down at Press Conference The director began to weep while discussing his competition film's depiction of the brutal Islamic law that has ...

Film Review: ‘Timbuktu’ Abderrahmane Sissako confirms his status as one of the true humanists of recent cinema with this stunningly shot and deeply empathetic drama.

The movie, one of five Academy Award nominees for best foreign language film this year, is about radical Islamists occupying the city in Mali. Remarkably, it's often on the verge of being a comedy.

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 ...

Even when you get past the eerie-coincidence level of Abderrahmane Sissako’s Oscar-nominated “Timbuktu” — a film about the causes, consequences and contradictions of Islamic extremism ...

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.

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 year ...

PARIS — Abderrahmane Sissako’s foreign-language Oscar-nommed “Timbuktu” was the big winner of the 40th Cesar Awards, snatching up seven kudos, including the film and director nods. Kristen ...

"Timbuktu" has a happy ending. Even if it isn't depicted in the movie, the city was eventually liberated from jihadist control. The film depicts a now-extinct regime.