

Timbuktu
A song for freedom.
Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.
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7.0/10
530 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $1.1M
- Language
- French
- civil war
- cattle
- religious fundamentalism
- religious conflict
- religious differences
- african customs
- yihad
- sharia law
- islamism
- mauritania
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Behind the camera
Director
Music
Produced in
France
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePalm Springs International Film Festival3 Jan 2015
- Theatrical28 Jan 2015
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1222 May 2015
- Physical12DVD10 Aug 2015
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival9 Sept 2014
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT1224 Oct 2014
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1617 Dec 2014
BrazilBR
- Theatrical14 anos22 Jan 2015
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical4 Jul 2015
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival15 May 2014
- TheatricalU10 Dec 2014
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1211 Dec 2014
GreeceGR
- Theatrical5 Mar 2015
IndonesiaID
- PremiereEurope on Screen1 May 2016
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1228 Nov 2014
Frequently asked questions
Timbuktu was released on 10 December 2014.
Audience reviews
2- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/29/2025
Not being a man of any religiosity at all, the effects seems to me all the more potent when a group of Jihadists arrive in this town and start to impose Sharia law. Now I don't wish to get all political here, but what we see for the next ninety minutes or so offers us some of the most appalling and disturbing scenes I've ever seen in a fact-based film. It's presented in an effective docu-drama style and follows story…
- G8/10
griggs79
8/18/2025
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…
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