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A beautiful vision of resistance
“Timbuktu,” the first film by an African-born black filmmaker to be nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar, transcends the present.
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Fatin Abbas is a writer. She was born in Sudan and raised in New York City.
“Timbuktu,” the first film by an African-born black filmmaker to be nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar, transcends the present.