How does Timbuktu end?

In the final act ("Tragic Execution"): Satima is brought to the execution site, leading to a fatal reunion and leaving the children to wander.

Timbuktu (2014) — AI Story Visualization

Name: Timbuktu
Genre: drama, war
Released: 2014
Rating: 7

Plot Analysis Summary

The clash between nomadic freedom and extremist tyranny in Mali.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

The New Regime

Domestic Disruption

Judicial Injustice

Public Terror

Tragic Execution

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.

Directed by

Abderrahmane Sissako

Key Cast

Ibrahim Ahmed — Kidane
Toulou Kiki — Satima
Layla Walet Mohamed — Toya
Abel Jafri — Abdelkrim
Kettly Noël — Zabou

Rating: 7/10 (512 votes)