The Bigger Picture film club ? ?Timbuktu? (2014) at East Dulwich Tavern on 15 September 2016

[The Bigger Picture]

The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Timbuktu? (2014) at 8pm on Thursday, 15 September 2016, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.

A delicate balance between hope and despair, Timbuktu is Abderrahmane Sissako?s insightful drama about a family negotiating survival in the desert and the city shattered by an invasion of religious bigotry and violence.

Set in the legendary city of Timbuktu, the traditions and ways of life of its inhabitants and older tribal society are being overturned by an invasion of fanatical soldiers from outside the country. Director Sissako creates an interrelated series of characters and tableaux to show scenes of life in the traumatised nation. At the centre is the tragic story of a herdsman?s family, Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed) his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki) and their daughter. When Kidane angrily confronts a fisherman who has killed his cow, a chain of events with tragic consequences unfolds. A complex depiction of an age old society being transformed by contemporary technology and extreme religious views.

Sissako is one of the most interesting and ambitious writer directors; born in Mauritania, he grew up in Mali. This film is a fearless and poetic response to oppression and cruelty.

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako, writer: Abderrahmane Sissako and Kessen Tall, with Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri, Hichem Yacoubi

France/Mauritius 97 minutes. Cert 12A. All tickets ?7.

Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm.

Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/351056

The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/

The Bigger Picture Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic?ref=tn_tnmn

Location:

Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern

1 Lordship Lane

London SE22 8EW

Rail: East Dulwich;

Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484