AfricAvenir hosts double screenings of Timbuktu

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AfricAvenir hosts double screenings of Timbuktu --

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:36

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With support of FNB Foundation and French Institute, AfricAvenir and the French Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) invite audiences to a double screening of Timbuktu on 21 July at 18h30, and 22 July, at 18h30. Screenings will be held at the FNCC in Windhoek.

AfricAvenir s curator Hans-Christian Mahnke comments, Timbuktu is an honest, poetic, and brilliant yet harsh description of the invasion of Timbuktu by religious fundamentalists. Sissako though his cinematic poetry shows the effects on the people, who try to carry on with their life under the new rulers. In beautiful film- language, poetically, Sissako shows the power of resistance by and dignity of the inhabitants of Timbuktu and the absurd contradictions but also the humanness of the invaders. Despite the despair, hope in a world of cruelty is possible.

Film details

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako

Language: French/Arabic with English subtitles.

Country: Mauritania/France

Synopsis:

Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by 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 inhabitants suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes and even soccer have been banned. Women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family seem to be spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.

AfricAvenir s film series African Perspectives is supported by AfriCine, FNB Foundation, Turipambe Design, Goethe-Centre Windhoek, FNCC and the Mahnke family.

Contact AfricAvenir Windhoek at: africavenir.whk@googlemail.com

Screening entrance fee: N$30

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