Timbuktu

Timbuktu

A song for freedom.

201496 min7.0 / 10

A somber, meditative examination of how religious extremism and occupation fracture communities and strip away human dignity, told through intimate portraits of ordinary people under oppressive rule.

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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