OPENING EVENING (Short film ‘Dankumba’ + fiction film ‘Timbuktu’)
Short Welcome by CAFF Director, Estrella Sendra, and Cambridge Film Trust Director, Tony Jones.
Tickets: Cambridge Arts Picturehouse Website
A Tribute to Bakary Diallo – Dankumba
Director: Bakary Diallo
Country: Mali
Year: 2011
Duration: 12 mins
Short Film
Venue: Arts Picturehouse
CAFF is hosting a special tribute to young Malian filmmaker Bakary Diallo, who tragically passed away in the Air Algérie Flight 5017 last July 2014. Born in 1979 in Mali, he had a promising career in African cinema. CAFF shows DANKUMBA, a meditative short film reflecting on superstition and everyday rituals.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWKx-NZG-r0
Timbuktu
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Country: Mali
Year: 2014
Duration: 100 mins
Fiction film
Venue: Arts Picturehouse
The latest film by one of the leading African filmmakers, Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako, TIMBUKTU opened the official competition in Cannes, impressing the jury and winning the Ecumenical Jury Prize and the François-Chalais Prize for its journalistic values. With his characteristic stunning photography, Sissako draws attention to the situation in Timbuktu, a region in North Mali, where jihadists are imposing a regime of terror. Music, laughter, cigarettes and even football have been banned. The film focuses on Kidane and his family, who are living peacefully in the dunes, until Kidane accidentally kills the beloved cow of a fisherman.
Trailer: http://www.le-pacte.com/international/new-films/single/timbuktu/
