In Abderrahmane Sissako’s film about the jihadist takeover of Mali’s ancient city — an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, from Mauritania where it was shot — terrible things happen. But Sissako is ...

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The director began to weep while discussing his competition film's depiction of the brutal Islamic law that has been instituted in his home country of Mali. By The Associated Press Abderrahmane ...

HOLLYWOOD >> Veteran Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako has created a fascinating movie, “Timbuktu,” about the recent Jihadist takeover of the neighboring West African nation Mali. What he ...

Set in a village outside Timbuktu, after the jihadist occupation of northern Mali in 2012, “Timbuktu” turns of a Kidane, a goat and cattle herder and father of a family who accidently kills a man, and ...

The official competition kicked off this morning with the screening of Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu and Mike Leigh's sublime (and grumpy) Mr. Turner, two films which paint beautiful tableaux, ...

PARIS– Rolling off a busy Cannes market, Jean Labadie’s Le Pacte has almost sold out a pair of critically-acclaimed official selection players: Abderrahmane Sissako’s “Timbuktu” and Wim Wenders and ...

In the hands of a master, indignation and tragedy can be rendered with clarity yet subtlety, setting hysteria aside for deeper, more richly shaded tones. Abderrahmane Sissako is just such a master, ...

Just as the festival winds down ahead of tonight’s awards ceremony, Cohen Media Group has acquired U.S. rights for Timbuktu, the Competition title directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. The ...