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Screen/Society--French & Francophone Film Festival--"Timbuktu"

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Monday, September 14, 2015
7:00 pm - 8:47 pm
Introduced by visiting scholar Amadou Fofana (African Cinema specialist, Humanities Writ Large); Q&A to follow!
French & Francophone Film Festival

Film Screening: "Timbuktu" (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014, 97 min, France/Mauritania, in Arabic, Bambara, French, English, Songhay, and Tamasheq w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) / Abderrahmane Sissako's new film looks at the terror and humiliation of occupation with an uncommonly serene eye. We are in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, where foreign jihadists are enforcing bans against sports, music, loafing, and bare-headed women. Sissako gracefully pivots between multiple characters, some of whom are seen only fleetingly while others, like the Tuareg family living in the hills near the city, we come to know intimately. Visually, "Timbuktu" is a series of wonders and Sissako's becalmed and sensitive eye for beauty intensifies the absurdity and horror of the film's quietly unfolding tragedy. / --"A transcendent political poem as intellectually rigorous as it is beautiful." --Philadelphia Inquirer / Trailer: https://youtu.be/MCeXfDOzKD4

Contact: Hank Okazaki