Timbuktu

Timbuktu

7.0IMDb Score
Released:2014-12-10
Genre:Drama,War
Duration:96 min
Country:France
Director:Abderrahmane Sissako
Actors:Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Abel Jafri, Kettly Noël
Production:Les films du Worso, Orange Studio, Arches Films, ARTE France Cinéma, Dune Vision

Overview:

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.

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