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Abderrahmane Sissakos African Worlds - Timbuktu [In-Person Only]
Mon Apr 25: 6.00pm PDT
$10 General Admission
$7 Student/Child/Senior/Member
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Abderrahmane Sissako
Mauritania, France & Qatar
2014
1h 37m
Series - Abderrahmane Sissakos African Worlds
About
** This film series is co-presented by the UW African Studies Program, Black Cinema Collective, Henry Art Gallery, Northwest Film Forum, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Director Abderrahmane Sissako will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A! **
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences.
Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered GPS, his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.
Timbuktu was Mauritanias first entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
Stills and synopsis courtesy of Cohen Media.
(Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania, France & Qatar, 2014, 97 min, in French, Arabic, Bambara, English, Songhay & Tamashek with English subtitles)
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