Timbuktu - a film for OWW
Date & Time: Thursday October 22nd at 7pm
Venue: Portsmouth Film Society
Eldon Building
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth, PO1 2DJ
Timbuktu (France/Mauritania 2014) Cert 12A | 96 min.
Set in the early days of the jihadist takeover of Northern Mali in 2012, the once bustling city is now near-silent, kept in order by soldiers who patrol the winding streets, employing their strict rules and swift justice to anyone who contravenes their law.
The film's narrative weaves between small but significant stories: a woman refuses to cover her feet as she sells from a street stall, a local imam confronts the extremists calmly in his mosque – but at the centre of the story is Kidane, a local shepherd, who lives freely outside of the city in the desert with his wife and two children.
Admission: NB: The Portsmouth Film Soc. is a club
so you need to buy temporary membership.
Contact Name: Sue James
Email: sue@oneworldweek.org
Telephone: 02392 250267