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Timbuktu

Timbuktu

7.0/ 10

TMDB Rating

510

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2014

Release Year

96 min

Runtime

Drama
War

Overview

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.

Keywords

civil war
cattle
religious fundamentalism
religious conflict
religious differences
african customs
yihad
sharia law
islamism
mauritania

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Reviews(2)

7.5avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 29, 2025

7
7/10

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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griggs79

griggs79

August 18, 2025

8
8/10

TMDb lists _Timbuktu_ as a French film — a legacy of TMDb’s rigid, funding-based categorisation system. But that’s a bureaucratic fiction. _Timbuktu_ was shot in Mauritania, directed by a Mauritanian (Abderrahmane Sissako), and submitted by Mauritania for the Oscars. To deny it as a Mauritanian film

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