Timbuktu

Calling Sissako a brilliant filmmaker is an understatement.

It's skilful, sardonic, honourably humane. Are those qualities, today, enough?

Sissako, who always has balanced his social conscience with a stridently comic sensibility, frames the Islamists as figures of fear, but also of mockery.

Timbuktu is filmed with the habitual class, sensibility and lyricism of this remarkable director [Abderrahmane Sissako]. [Full review in Spanish]