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A quick weekend announcement before showcasing the film at the 44th annual New York Film Festival, New Yorker Films announced they picked up the dramedy.
Featured at the Cannes film fest and the Toronto International Film Festival, Bamako
this revolves around a couple in the process of breaking up and several people who testify in a court located outside their home in the city of Bamako, the capital of the West African country of Mali. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up… In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceeding against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa’s woes… Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa’s desire to fight for its rights…
Writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako’s lived in Mali as a child. His last feature titled Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness) got the Best Certain Regard Film Award from the FIPRESCI jury and also won several international festival awards.
