Timbuktu

Dec 10, 2014

1h 36m

★ 7.0

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.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Les films du Worso

Orange Studio

Arches Films

ARTE France Cinéma

Dune Vision

Timbuktu Trailers

Cast

Kidane

Ibrahim Ahmed

Satima

Toulou Kiki

Toya

Layla Walet Mohamed

Abdelkrim

Abel Jafri

Zabou

Kettly Noël

Jihadist

Hichem Yacoubi

Issan

Mehdi A.G. Mohamed

Singer

Fatoumata Diawara

The Imam

Adel Mahmoud Cherif

Jihadist leader

Salem Dendou

Jihadist

Mamby Kamissoko

Jihadist

Yoro Diakité

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