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Timbuktu

A song for freedom.

7.0(530)20141h 36m2

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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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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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

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Timbuktu was released on 10 December 2014.

Audience reviews

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  • C

    CinemaSerf

    1/29/2025

    7/10

    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…

  • G

    griggs79

    8/18/2025

    8/10

    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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