Director Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu) in conversation | BFI #LFF

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Celebrated director Abderrahmane Sissako reflects on his craft and how he came to filmmaking, and discusses his new film Timbuktu, Palme d’Or-nominated in 2014. He shares his philosophy of filmmaking, focussed on representing people and places often absent from the global conversation, and addressing questions of otherness and inequality.

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