Timbuktu, the entry from Mauritania that'll compete for the best foreign-language Oscar at this Sunday's Academy Awards, is set in neighboring Mali in West Saharan Africa. The movie, which opens ...

A world of knowledge was nearly lost forever amid the al-Qaida occupation in Timbuktu five years ago. Many were burnt, but thousands of ancient manuscripts were smuggled away and saved, and now are ...

The Eagle Huntress filmmaker and CNN chief creative officer Otto Bell is to provide a feature-length documentary adaptation of Joshua Hammer’s New York Times bestseller The Bad Ass Librarians of ...

What seems like serendipity in the timing of a film's release sometimes signifies prescience and vision on the part of the filmmaker. Award-winning writer/director Abderrahmane Sissako (Waiting for ...

The sole representative of African cinema in competition this year, the fifth solo directing effort from the Mauritania-born, Mali-raised Sissako was inspired by the real-life story of the 2012 ...

Timbuktu, a film by Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, won big at the 40th Cesar Awards, France's equivalent of the Oscars, which took place at Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet on February 20 and ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - The Oscar nomination of "Timbuktu", a film about the occupation of the Malian desert town by al Qaeda-linked Islamists in 2012, should not mask the lack of established cinema from ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The Malian military government on Monday started returning home the historic manuscripts of Timbuktu, which were spirited out of their fabled northern city when it was occupied by ...

Eight years after delivering his Oscar-nominated film “Timbuktu,” Abderrahmane Sissako is set to make his anticipated directorial comeback with “The Perfumed Hill.” Gaumont is representing in ...

A loving desert family is torn apart by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Africa in Abderrahmane Sissako’s poetic social outcry. By Deborah Young The sole representative of African cinema in ...

Abderrahmane Sissako confirms his status as one of the true humanists of recent cinema with this stunningly shot and deeply empathetic drama. In the hands of a master, indignation and tragedy can be ...