IMAN Foundation meets with renowned filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako
Sunday, 26 April 2015
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The Iman Foundation' s Vice Chairman, Ahmedou Ould Abdel Aziz, recently met with filmmaker and director Abderrahmane Sissako in Nouakchott to discussed the success of his latest movie 'Timbuktu'.
Timbuktu is the first film of its kind to tackle extremism in this way and show the reality of life under Islamic extremists.
It is also the fist African film to receive 7 Cesar awards, France's version of the Oscars.
Ahmedou congratulated Sissako on behalf of The Iman Foundation and wished him the very best for future projects.
Synopsis
2015 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film! Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the 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 people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences.
Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered “GPS,” his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants. Timbuktu is Mauritania's first entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
