July 2, 7pm, TIMBUKTU Studio Movie Grill
by
TIMBUKTU
A film by Abderrahmane Sissako
1h37 – Mauritania/France – 2014
Official Competition 2014 Cannes Film Festival
(Winner: Prix du Jury Ecuménique, François Chalais Award)
July 2, 7pm, $6 Admission
SMG Chatham, 210 W 87th st
FREE PARKING
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their shepherd.
In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences.
Kidane and his family had been spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu, but when their destiny changes abruptly, Kidane must face the new laws of the foreign occupants.