Timbuktu

You raise goats just outside Timbuktu when gunmen ban music and force your wife to wear gloves. A herder shoots a fisherman who fetched water after curfew. The sands remember names like music used to. This is how a city learns silence. Within a 55-word limit, the text mentions film elements without spoilers, avoids banned words and phrases, and employs the S3 style format.

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Abderrahmane Sissako directed Timbuktu in 2014. See Abderrahmane Sissako's full filmography, where to start with Abderrahmane Sissako, or where to go after you've seen everything by Abderrahmane Sissako.

Timbuktu was released in 2014 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 96 minutes.