Where was Timbuktu filmed?

2014 film by Abderrahmane Sissako

Timbuktu (2014) was filmed in Oualata — 1 recorded filming location in Mauritania. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.

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Filming locations

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Oualata

  🇲🇷 Mauritania

  commune of Mauritania

  “Shot in Oualata, Mauritania, Timbuktu was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the François Chalais Prize.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Mauritania, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

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