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Bamako
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- Summary
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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...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Icarus Films ; Les films du losange ; Archipel 33, Chinguitty Films, Mali Images présentent une coproduction ARTE France en association avec Louverture Films ; un film de Abderrahmane Sissako ; scénario et réalisation, Abderrahmane Sissako ; producteurs délégués, Denis Freyd, Abderrahmane Sissako
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- French, Bambara
- Contributors
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- Sissako, Abderrahmane, film director, screenwriter, film producer
- Freyd, Denis, film producer
- Maïga, Aïssa, actor
- Traoré, Tiécoura, actor
- Diarra, Hélène, actor
- Glover, Danny, actor, film producer
- Archipel 33 (Firm)
- Chinguitty Films (Firm)
- Mali Images (Firm)
- ARTE France
- Louverture Films (Firm)
- Films du losange (Firm)
- Icarus Films
- Publication
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- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2020]
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (117 min.) : digital, sound, color
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- on1227625423
- Credits
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- Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Hélène Diarra ; with a guest appearance by Danny Glover
- Image, Jacques Besse ; montage, Nadia Ben Rachid
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions.
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Archipel 33 [and 3 others], ©2006.
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- In French and Bambara with English subtitles.
Subjects
- International Monetary Fund -- Mali -- Bamako -- Drama.
- World Bank -- Mali -- Bamako -- Drama.
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- Mali -- Bamako -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Mali -- Bamako -- Drama.
- Women singers -- Mali -- Bamako -- Drama.
- Courtyards -- Mali -- Bamako -- Drama.
- Bamako (Mali) -- Drama.