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Timbuktu
MEANRANK
77/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98. Critics average 95, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In the ancient city of Timbuktu, occupied by extremist fundamentalists, the inhabitants endure the harsh new rules imposed by the Jihadists. Music, laughter, and football are forbidden. The story focuses on a cattle herder and his family living on the outskirts of the city, whose quiet existence is shattered by a senseless tragedy, revealing the absurdity and human cost of fanaticism.
Details
- Director
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Writers
- Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall
- Released
- 10 December 2014
- Country
- France
- Language
- French, Arabic, Bambara, English, Songhay, Tamashek
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Box office
- $1.1M
- Awards
- 6 wins, 3 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →2 major awards won · 6 wins from 9 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| César Award 2014 | Best Film | Winner | |
| Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Cannes 2014 | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Cannes | Winner | |
| 87th Academy Awards 2015 | Best International Feature Film | Nominee | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2015 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Mauritania | Nominee |
| 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 | IFFR audience award | Nominee | |
| Lumière Award 2015 | Best Film | Abderrahmane Sissako | Winner |
| Lumière Award 2015 | Best Director | Abderrahmane Sissako | Winner |
| François Chalais Prize 2014 | François Chalais Prize | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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9 awards — Timbuktu
×| Best Film | Winner |
| Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Cannes | Winner |
| Best International Feature Film | Nominee |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Mauritania | Nominee |
| Best Director | Abderrahmane Sissako | Winner |
| Best Film | Abderrahmane Sissako | Winner |
| François Chalais Prize | Winner |
| Grand Prix | Winner |
| IFFR audience award | Nominee |