JOHANNESBURG – An Islamic extremist can't summon the necessary fervor while making a video hailing the jihadi cause in a scene from "Timbuktu," an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film that is ...
Three years ago, when Islamist rebels seized the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako began planning a film about Islamic extremism. As an African Muslim, he says he always ...
Timbuktu, the entry from Mauritania that'll compete for the best foreign-language Oscar at this Sunday's Academy Awards, is set in neighboring Mali in West Saharan Africa. The movie, which opens ...
Violent jihadism as a governing ideology has been a significant feature of the global scene for nearly two decades. There are certainly differences between say, the nature Al Shabaab's control over ...
On July 29, 2012, a couple in northern Mali, who had two children, were stoned to death by Islamist militants. The reason: The mother and father were not married. That horrifying story inspired ...
The hot Malian sands of Abderrahmane Sissako’s “Timbuktu” are a cool reservoir of placid beauty, where desert dunes are swept by quiet ripples of colorful, everyday village life and haphazard storms ...
On January 15, the same day that the Academy nominated Mauritanian film Timbuktu for Best Foreign Language Film, satellite photos emerged of the devastation wrought by the Islamist militant group Boko ...
A loving desert family is torn apart by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Africa in Abderrahmane Sissako’s poetic social outcry. By Deborah Young The sole representative of African cinema in ...
Movies about terrorism, whether told from the perspective of investigators, victims, or perpetrators, tend to focus on catastrophic attacks. This makes sense for cinematic reasons—few things build ...
The sole representative of African cinema in competition this year, the fifth solo directing effort from the Mauritania-born, Mali-raised Sissako was inspired by the real-life story of the 2012 ...
French viewers were enthralled by Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu. The Mauritanian film, made with French collaboration, swept the César Awards with seven prizes, including best film, best director, ...
UPDATE, 4:50 PM PT: At nearly four hours, tonight’s César Awards ceremony was one of the longest I can remember, but oddly also one of the most entertaining. Host Edouard Baer kept things moving for ...
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