Timbuktu, the entry from Mauritania that'll compete for the best foreign-language Oscar at this Sunday's Academy Awards, is set in neighboring Mali in West Saharan Africa. The movie, which opens ...
The hot Malian sands of Abderrahmane Sissako’s “Timbuktu” are a cool reservoir of placid beauty, where desert dunes are swept by quiet ripples of colorful, everyday village life and haphazard storms ...
On July 29, 2012, a couple in northern Mali, who had two children, were stoned to death by Islamist militants. The reason: The mother and father were not married. That horrifying story inspired ...
French viewers were enthralled by Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu. The Mauritanian film, made with French collaboration, swept the César Awards with seven prizes, including best film, best director, ...
It was an outrage nearly lost amid so many: the stoning death of a unmarried couple in Bamako, Mali, at the start of the relatively short-lived takeover of that sub-Saharannation by the Ansar Dine ...
The sole representative of African cinema in competition this year, the fifth solo directing effort from the Mauritania-born, Mali-raised Sissako was inspired by the real-life story of the 2012 ...
What seems like serendipity in the timing of a film's release sometimes signifies prescience and vision on the part of the filmmaker. Award-winning writer/director Abderrahmane Sissako (Waiting for ...
Each year, the Salisbury Film Society chooses eight films that captivate an audience and make them ask questions. The films, sometimes rare and unique, cannot be easily accessed by the community said ...
The 11th Annual Focus on French Film, the acclaimed showcase for new cinema from France and across the French-speaking world, returns to Connecticut and New York March 27- 31 with an exciting lineup ...
The Eagle Huntress filmmaker and CNN chief creative officer Otto Bell is to provide a feature-length documentary adaptation of Joshua Hammer’s New York Times bestseller The Bad Ass Librarians of ...
A loving desert family is torn apart by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Africa in Abderrahmane Sissako’s poetic social outcry. By Deborah Young The sole representative of African cinema in ...
Abderrahmane Sissako confirms his status as one of the true humanists of recent cinema with this stunningly shot and deeply empathetic drama. In the hands of a master, indignation and tragedy can be ...
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