Seen at the Walker Art Center last winter as a part of an Abderrahmane Sissako retrospective,  we were mesmerized by this cinematographically stunning film about a group of Islamic fundamentalists taking control of the town of Timbuktu… to watch as soon as possible, on a large screen if available… Here is an article written by the Walker Art Center about Sissako: “I think for me, cinema, or to make movies, or any act of creation is the research of yourself.” —Abderrahmane Sissako In his first stop on a US tour, Oscar-nominated director Abderrahmane Sissako comes to the Walker to present this short retrospective. His films are distinguished not only by great formal beauty and poetic imagery but also by humor, profound sympathy with human suffering, and an almost philosophical inquiry into relations between West Africa and the rest of the world. Although officially labelled a Mauritanian director, Sissako made films in Russia, Tunisia, Angola, and Mali before returning to his mother’s homeland to shoot the masterful Waiting for Happiness(Mauritania, 2002). Since then, his work on films such as Bamako …