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Timbuktu

A song for freedom.

7.020141h 36m

DramaWar

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.

Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako

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Cast

Ibrahim Ahmed

Kidane

Toulou Kiki

Satima

Layla Walet Mohamed

Toya

Abel Jafri

Abdelkrim

Kettly Noël

Zabou

Hichem Yacoubi

Jihadist

Mehdi A.G. Mohamed

Issan

Fatoumata Diawara

Singer

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Timbuktu

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