Timbuktu

Timbuktu

  • Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
  • Writer: Abderrahmane Sissako,Kessen Tall
  • Countries of origin: Mauritania, France, Qatar
  • Language: French, Arabic, Bambara, English, Songhay, Tamashek
  • Release date: December 10, 2014
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Timbuktú
  • "Timbuktu" is a feature film produced by Armada Films, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, starring Abel jaffe and Ibrahim Ahmed. It was released in France on May 16, 2014.
    The film tells the story of the African people in the Sahara Desert who fell into silence under an unnatural reign of terror and was ignored by the world   .

    Details

    • Release date December 10, 2014
    • Filming locations Oualata, Mauritania
    • Production companies Les Films du Worso, Dune Vision, Arches Films

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,076,075

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $45,110

    Gross worldwide

    $7,179,391

    Movie reviews

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    • By Virginia 2022-12-17 12:55:42

      Timbuktu

      "Timbuktu"
      Timbuktu is a city with a long history from Mali, an ancient city in Africa, and a famous city in Islam. The film story takes this city as the background and tells the Islamic jihadist organization that controls the area. Strict and almost harsh Islamic regulations are adopted, such as no singing, playing guitar, football, no smoking or drinking, women are required to wear veils and gloves. Then, the problem emerged. Children can only play without the ball on the football field,...

    • By Alessia 2022-10-24 05:03:45

      In this world, there are problems that cannot be solved by law, and people must be allowed to solve them with guns

      Film Review|"Timbuktu": No country in the world has problems that cannot be solved by law, and people must be allowed to solve them with guns.

      Viewing location: China Film Museum French Film Week
      Viewing time: March 25, 2017 at 14:00 pm


      The real Timbuktu is a remote town with a population of more than 20,000, historically a trade and cultural center , was the center of the spread of Islam in Africa in ancient times, and today there are still several mosques and...

    • By Jana 2022-10-14 06:02:56

      This is an involuntary world, all naked violence is so solemnly disguised by the divine, and every brutal person is the spokesperson of God!

      This is an involuntary world. All naked violence is called sacred and disguised so solemnly. Every brutal person is a spokesperson for God!

      The reason why a man is a man is that he must first have a certain degree of freedom. Freedom and democracy are the goals of all mankind! But in this oppressive world, everyone pretends to be forced to a certain level, and they become very unfree! The male host is a kind and dutiful person, but he has to pretend to bring a gun to stand up for his...

    • By Titus 2022-10-11 00:48:21

      The pain of life far outweighs the joy

      The girl was running in panic, the desert beneath her feet devoured her energy little by little, at the same time, the cowboy was running, and the resisters on motorcycles were running away... "Timbuktu" is now ending, and applause is heard in the darkness, But I couldn't applaud this work. At that moment, I remembered the photograph "The Hungry Sultan" that won the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism in 1994. Greedy vulture.

      We are the onlookers of this cruel work, we are silent,...

    • By Jacklyn 2022-09-16 04:35:50

      Timbuktu: Life is far more brutal than the movies, isn't it?

      Timbuktu is located on the southern edge of the Northern Sahara Desert, on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Niger River, a famous river in West Africa. According to the romantic saying of the ancient nomads in West Africa, the Sahara is not a desert, but a "land and sea", and Timbuktu is right on this "land and sea". central. In the 10th century, this place was still an uninhabited place. I don’t know when, some nomads or traders who passed by dug a spring water well here. Later,...

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    • By Horacio 2023-09-30 14:38:02

      A typical example of winning by subject matter, a group portrait of a group of people who lost their freedom under the oppression of terrorists, a cow on the verge of death, and a person being punished form an echo. People walking or running in the desert are like fighting beasts. The director clearly conveys a sense of tragedy that is powerless to control fate, but the characterization is not three-dimensional except for a group of families, and the rest is not three-dimensional. The whole...

    • By Tatyana 2023-09-25 07:03:57

      3.5. I've always felt that one of the problems with movies is that the camera is always far away from objects and brutal events, or simplifying some extreme events. And most of the time in the movie is a literary drama, depicting the customs of Timbuktu. Looking back, this perspective does not pose a big problem. It is just that the director's choice of perspective is actually more like an outsider or bystander, and he did not investigate the mechanism and causal relationship of all these...

    • By Xzavier 2023-09-20 16:58:53

      Resist? Nonviolent...

    • By Dean 2023-08-30 05:17:51

      Not to mention extreme religious beliefs, I think having beliefs is a very strong and terrible thing in itself. There is a silent power to this...

    • By Jaden 2023-08-13 14:14:08

      The ending song is a bit...

    Movie plot

    Mali Timbuktu, trapped under the control of religious extremists, was persecuted by jihadists all day long, "half of the country was occupied by the invaders." Women bear the brunt. By telling the story of Kidane ( played by Ibrahim Ahmed) , Satima ( played by Tuluo Gigi) , their daughters Toya and Issan, and their small farm, Abderrahmane Sissako spoke about "being the media and the whole Terrorism in this region "ignored by the...
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    Positive review

    "Timbuktu" is a brief history of modern life and religious tragedies in Africa. It is full of restraint and tension, amazing and shocking. There is no preaching, only the sad and poetic pictures and the lives of ordinary people, but what is shown is another world that is difficult to understand or escape from the understanding of the vast majority of the world (Sina Entertainment Review)  .
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    Movie quotes

    • Omar: Satima?

      Satima: I'm listening.

      Omar: I'm Abdelkarim's driver. I have a message from him: "He can't do anything to help. It's over".

    • L'Imam: [to a jihadist] Stop this. You cause harm to Islam and Muslims. You put children in danger in front of their poor mother. You even hit the mother of two children without any good reason. Before you came, a woman was here to complain that you forced her to wear gloves-- here they are-- without convincing her of their usefulness, as is prescribed by Allah and His prophet. Remember the words of Allah the Almighty: "So pardon them. Consult them in the matter. Speak with them. Once you've made a decision, put your trust in Allah, for He loves those who rely upon Him." Where's leniency? Where's forgiveness? Where's piety? Where's exchange... exchange? Where is God in all this?