14-20 November 2016

Timbuktu

Abderrahmane Sissako

  • Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)

Synopsis

“An extraordinary film and a formidable work of anger and compassion set against Mali’s bloody cultural struggle with Islamic militants, Timbuktu is a cri de cœur against violence and intolerance; but what makes it so unusually compelling as a protest film is that it’s also a richly poetic work of cinema: witty, beautiful and even—sobering though it is—highly entertaining.” —Jonathan Romney, The Guardian

Timbuktu is an act of resistance and revenge because it asserts the power of secularism not as an ideology but rather as a stubborn fact of life.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Info

  • Country France, Mauritania
  • Year 2014
  • Format Digital
  • Running time 97 min
  • Image Colour
  • Language Arabic, French
  • Subtitles Spanish
  • Production company Les Films du Worso, Dune Vision, Arches Films, Arte France Cinéma
  • Producer Sylvie Pialat, Rémi Burah, Etienne Comar, Amin Bouhafa
  • Screenplay Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall
  • Photography Sofian El Fani
  • Editor Nadia Ben Rachid
  • Actors Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri, Fatoumata Diawara, Hichem Yacoubi, Kettly Noel, Mehdi AG Mohamed

Festivals

Festival de Cannes - Prix du jury œcuménique Césars - Meilleur film / Meilleur réalisateur

Presented by Yann Dedet 17/11

For reasons beyond our control, Sylvie Pialat is unable to come to l’Alternativa as planned. However, the Maurice Pialat retrospective and the Les Films du Worso section will be presented by actor, editor and filmmaker Yann Dedet, who edited a number of films by Maurice Pialat and François Truffaut and has recently edited films by Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis and Philippe Garrel.

Programme

Thursday 17, 20.00 h — Saturday 19, 19.45 h — Teatre CCCB