Timbuktu

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.

Cast

Ibrahim Ahmed

as Kidane

Toulou Kiki

as Satima

Layla Walet Mohamed

as Toya

Abel Jafri

as Abdelkrim

Kettly Noël

as Zabou

Hichem Yacoubi

as Jihadist

Mehdi A.G. Mohamed

as Issan

Fatoumata Diawara

as Singer

Adel Mahmoud Cherif

as The Imam

Salem Dendou

as Jihadist leader

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Not 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 minutes or so offers us some of the most appalling and ...

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