Top billed cast

1. 

   Ibrahim Ahmed

   Kidane

2. 

   Toulou Kiki

   Satima

3. 

   Layla Walet Mohamed

   Toya

4. 

   Abel Jafri

   Abdelkrim

5. 

   Kettly Noël

   Zabou

6. 

   Hichem Yacoubi

   Jihadist

7. 

   Mehdi A.G. Mohamed

   Issan

8. 

   Fatoumata Diawara

   Singer

9. 

   Adel Mahmoud Cherif

   The Imam

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Reviews

A review by griggs79

Written by griggs79 on 2025-08-18

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 is to prioritise production money over cultural authorship — a quietly colonial impulse that continues to erase African voices from their own stories. Cinema is more than contracts and credits. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

_Timbuktu_ is a film of quiet fury, showing how a city fame...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$1,076,075.00

Keywords

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