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Bamako, New Yorker Films presents an Abderrahmane Sissako film, an Archipel 33, Chinguitty Film, Mali Images, Arte France co-production in association with Louverture Films ; produced by Denis Freyd and Abderrahmane Sissako ; written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako

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Bamako, New Yorker Films presents an Abderrahmane Sissako film, an Archipel 33, Chinguitty Film, Mali Images, Arte France co-production in association with Louverture Films ; produced by Denis Freyd and Abderrahmane Sissako ; written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Language
fre
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videorecording
Main title
Bamako
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videorecording DVD
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New Yorker Films presents an Abderrahmane Sissako film, an Archipel 33, Chinguitty Film, Mali Images, Arte France co-production in association with Louverture Films ; produced by Denis Freyd and Abderrahmane Sissako ; written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Runtime
117
Summary
Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous trial witnesses air bracing indictments against the multinational economic machinery that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward
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Special features: Interviews with director Abderrahmane Sissako, exec. prod / actor Danny Glover, Yao Graham (Third World Network Africa), and Gita Sen (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) -- Harry Belafonte: clip from NY Film Festival panel -- Theatrical trailer -- Essays by Aminata Traore and Mahmood Mamdani
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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