Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- 12
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.
- civil war
- cattle
- religious fundamentalism
- religious conflict
- religious differences
- african customs
- yihad
- sharia law
- islamism
- mauritania
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Kettly Noël — Zabou
- Hichem Yacoubi — Jihadist
- Mehdi A.G. Mohamed — Issan
- Fatoumata Diawara — Singer
- Adel Mahmoud Cherif — The Imam
- Salem Dendou — Jihadist leader
- Mamby Kamissoko — Jihadist
- Yoro Diakité — Jihadist
- Cheik A.G. Emakni — Omar
- Zikra Oualet Moussa — Tina
- Weli Kleïb — Judge
- Directed
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Written
- Kessen Tall, Abderrahmane Sissako
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 521 ratings
- Studio
- Les films du Worso, Orange Studio, Arches Films, ARTE France Cinéma, Dune Vision
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
