Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Passionate humanistic & enormously powerful Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako&s Timbuktu was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards & screened in competition for the " Palme d Or" at Cannes Film Festival 2014 Based on the forceful takeover of Mail in 2012 Timbuktu is a searing & extraordinary fable about the dangers of religious extremism that positions Sissako at the forefront of African cinema