MALI · 2014

Timbuktu

Abderrahmane Sissako
FESPACO Generation religious extremism occupation and resistance cultural suppression justice and accountability everyday life under tyranny
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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.

Year2014
CountryMali
DirectorAbderrahmane Sissako
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