Timbuktu 2014 1080p BluRay 5 1 x264 NVEETitle: Timbuktu (2014)Genres: Drama, WarDescription: Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Moham...
In the beginning there was violence
Abderrahmane Sissako's film "Timbuktu" portrays the nightmarish horror of Islamist rampages and at the same time invokes gentleness as a source of resistance. The compelling story is captured in masterful imagery by the cameraman Sofiane El Fani. By Hans-Jörg Rother
In 2012, when news of the advance of Islamists in Mali reached the outside world, reports of their nine-month occupation of the northern part of the country included an account of the execution of a man and a woman who had been living together out of wedlock. The film director Abderrahmane Sissako ("Bamako", 2006), who was born in Mauritania in 1961 and grew up in Mali, turned this news item into a brief but harrowing episode in his new film "Timbuktu", in which a couple is stoned in accordance with Sharia law.