"Director: Abderrahmane Sissako"

• Timbuktu DVD | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Passionate, humanistic and enormously powerful, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards and screened in competition for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2014. Not far from Timbuktu, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people struggle under a regime of terror imposed by invading Jihadists determined to control their faith and threaten their way of life. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even football have been banned and every day the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu, but their destiny changes when Kidane runs foul of the foreign occupants and is confronted by their merciless new laws. Based on the forceful takeover of Mail in 2012, Timbuktu is at once searing and poetic; an extraordinary fable about the dangers of religious extremism that also conveys the rich cultural heritage of the Malian people.

• Timbuktu Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (10/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Passionate, humanistic and enormously powerful, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards and screened in competition for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2014. Not far from Timbuktu, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people struggle under a regime of terror imposed by invading Jihadists determined to control their faith and threaten their way of life. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even football have been banned and every day the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu, but their destiny changes when Kidane runs foul of the foreign occupants and is confronted by their merciless new laws. Based on the forceful takeover of Mail in 2012, Timbuktu is at once searing and poetic; an extraordinary fable about the dangers of religious extremism that also conveys the rich cultural heritage of the Malian people.

• Bamako | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mel is a bar singer her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights.

• Waiting For Happiness | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The stories of intertwining lives in a small seaside village on the Mauritanian coast.