Timbuktu (2014)

12/10/2014Drama, War1h 36m
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A song for freedom.

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Ibrahim Ahmed

    Kidane

  2. Cast 1

    Toulou Kiki

    Satima

  3. Layla Walet Mohamed

    Toya

  4. Cast 1

    Abel Jafri

    Abdelkrim

  5. Cast 1

    Kettly Noël

    Zabou

  6. Cast 1

    Hichem Yacoubi

    Jihadist

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    Mehdi A.G. Mohamed

    Issan

  8. Cast 1

    Fatoumata Diawara

    Singer

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    Adel Mahmoud Cherif

    The Imam

Not being a man of any religiosity at all, the effects seems to me all the more potent when a group of Jihadists arrive in this town and start to impose Sharia law. Now I don't wish to get all political here, but what we see for the next ninety minutes or so offers us some of the most appalling and disturbing scenes I've ever seen in a fact-based film. It's presented in an effective docu-drama style and follows storylines that see the townsfolk fall foul of their uninvited new regime. To add some context, one man gets 20 lashes for playing football - because it is banned. A woman receives many...