Directed by:
Abderrahmane SissakoScreenplay:
Abderrahmane SissakoCinematography:
Jacques BesseCast:
Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Balla Habib Dembélé, Djénéba Koné, Hamadoun Kassogué, William Bourdon, Mamadou Kanouté (more)VOD (1)
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An extraordinary trial is taking place in a residential courtyard in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. African citizens have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whom civil society blames for perpetuating Africa's debt crisis, at the heart of so many of the continent's woes. As numerous trial witnesses (schoolteachers, farmers, writers, etc.) air bracing indictments against the global economic machinery that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward. Melé, a lounge singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up; a security guard's gun goes missing; a young man lies ill; a wedding procession passes through; and women keep everything rolling - dyeing fabric, minding children, spinning cotton, and speaking their minds. (official distributor synopsis)
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Aïssa Maïga
Senegal
Best movies:
Sometimes in April (2005) (TV movie)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
The African Doctor (2016)
Tiécoura Traoré
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Best movies:
Moolaadé (2004)
Code Unknown (2000)
Bamako (2006)
Djénéba Koné
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
A Screaming Man (2010)
Hamadoun Kassogué
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
William Bourdon
Best movies:
The Clearstream Affair (2014)
Bamako (2006)
Mamadou Kanouté
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Gabriel Magma Konate
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Aminata Traoré
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Danny Glover
USA
Best movies:
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Saw (2004)
Elia Suleiman
Israel
Best movies:
The Time That Remains (2009)
Divine Intervention (2002)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Abderrahmane Sissako
Mauritania
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Jean-Henri Roger
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Zeka Laplaine
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Assa Badiallo Souko
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Zegué Bamba
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Dramane Bassaro
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Ferdinand Batsimba
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)
Boissou Berthé
Best movies:
Bamako (2006)