Story Line
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.
“A song for freedom.”
Top Cast
Ibrahim Ahmed
Kidane
Toulou Kiki
Satima
Layla Walet Mohamed
Toya
Abel Jafri
Abdelkrim
Kettly Noël
Zabou
Hichem Yacoubi
Jihadist
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Rating
7.0/ 10
Release Date
2014-12-10
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
DramaWar
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User Reviews (2)
CinemaSerf
7/10
•1/29/2025Not 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 minut...
griggs79
8/10
•8/18/2025TMDb lists _Timbuktu_ as a French film — a legacy of TMDb’s rigid, funding-based categorisation system. But that’s a bureaucratic fiction. _Timbuktu_ was shot in Mauritania, directed by a Mauritanian (Abderrahmane Sissako), and submitted by Mauritani...