Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ibrahim Ahmed | ... | Kidane (as Ibrahim Ahmed dit Pino) | |
Abel Jafri | ... | Abdelkerim | |
Toulou Kiki | ... | Satima | |
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Layla Walet Mohamed | ... | Toya |
Mehdi A.G. Mohamed | ... | Issan | |
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Hichem Yacoubi | ... | Djihadiste |
Kettly Noël | ... | Zabou | |
Fatoumata Diawara | ... | La chanteuse Fatou | |
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Adel Mahmoud Cherif | ... | L'Imam |
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Salem Dendou | ... | Le chef djihadiste |
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Mamby Kamissoko | ... | Djihadiste |
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Yoro Diakité | ... | Djihadiste |
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Cheik A.G. Emakni | ... | Omar |
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Zikra Oualet Moussa | ... | Tina |
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Weli Kleïb | ... | Juge (as Weli Cleib) |
Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Mohamed), and Issan (Mehdi Ag Mohamed), 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 abruptly. Written by Anonymous
At the end of Woody Allen's Bananas, the leader of the successful Latin American revolution starts making crazed pronouncements: "The official language of the country will be Swedish! Everyone must change their underwear every day, and wear it on the outside so we can check!" That's kind of what happens when the jihadists come to town in Timbuktu, only its tragic, not funny. A bunch of mostly foreigners with AK-47s show up in a Muslim community, tell all the locals they're not Muslim enough, and oh, by the way, use the Qaran to justify taking anything they feel like taking, including marriageable young women. You come away with a sense of what it feels like for ordinary people to live through this, and it's not pretty at all.