Mauritania · Film
Timbuktu
Abderrahmane Sissako · 2014
Sissako stages occupation as an attack on song itself, with jihadists banning music from a city where music was the air of daily devotion. The film's quiet insurgencies, a woman singing under threat, a ball played without one, mirror Anbessa Dub's insistence that sacred sound is itself a form of political sovereignty.