Bamako

Studio 5

Rail 7: Studio 5 Movies

Abderrahmane Sissako - Mali / USA / FR - 2006 - fiction - color - 115' - OV - STT FR / NL

Showtimes: 05 November 2008 - 21:00 / 10 November 2008 - 22:00 / 19 November 2008 - 18:00 / 21 November 2008 - 18:00 / 22 November 2008 - 22:00 / 09 December 2008 - 18:00 / 11 December 2008 - 20:00

Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako, who made the meditative “Waiting for Happiness”, directs a highly original, deeply resonant film. In an inner courtyard in the capital of Mali, Bamako, an alfresco tribunal of African civil society – the witnesses - takes on the international financial institutions – the defendants. The hearings are broadcast around town via loudspeakers. And yet Sissako avoids any didacticism by bringing in the private lives and problems of various neighbours, producing a deeply humane and vividly pedagogical tale.

With: Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Danny Glover

Coprod. Flagey / Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique