Abderrahmane Sissako’s African Worlds – Timbuktu [In-Person Only]
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Visiting Artist
** Featuring an in-person Q&A with director Abderrahmane Sissako! **
About
** This film series is co-presented by the UW African Studies Program, Black Cinema Collective, Henry Art Gallery, Northwest Film Forum, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. **
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. 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 are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered “GPS,” his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.
Timbuktu was Mauritania’s first entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
Stills and synopsis courtesy of Cohen Media.
(Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania, France & Qatar, 2014, 97 min, in French, Arabic, Bambara, English, Songhay & Tamashek with English subtitles)
More from this series:
Four films and a lecture by Abderrahmane Sissako holding the transformational poetics of humanitarian cinema.
Apr. 22 | 1–3pm | Life on Earth (1998) at Henry Art Gallery Auditorium
Apr. 23 | 3–5pm |Waiting for Happiness (2002) at Henry Art Gallery Auditorium
Apr. 24 | 1–3pm | Bamako (2006) at NWFF
Apr. 25 | 6–8pm | Timbuktu (2014) at NWFF
Apr. 26 | 7–8:30pm | Translating African Worlds: A Conversation with Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, Kane Hall at University of Washington
The Katz Lecture on Apr. 26 is hosted and sponsored by SCH in co-presenting partnership with UW African Studies Program, Black Cinema Collective, Henry Art Gallery, and Northwest Film Forum.
Abderrahmane Sissako
Black Cinema Collective
www.blackcinemacollective.org