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Bamako

2006

In a Bamako courtyard, African civil society stages a symbolic trial of the World Bank and IMF, indicting the debt and austerity strangling the continent, while ordinary life goes on around the proceedings. Abderrahmane Sissako's bold political fable.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Mali

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