LIAS Film Series: "Bamako"

Wednesday, 8. Mai, 7:00 pm

08. May

In the LIAS film series in cooperation with the SCALA arthouse cinema, international films on cultural and socially critical topics are accompanied by introductions and discussions every month.

In a gripping film drama, director Abderrahmane Sissako takes the audience into an African society that is trapped in an economic system with devastating consequences.
At a court hearing in a courtyard in Mali's capital Bamako, two interest groups clash: the citizens of a country that has to comply with the dictates of international financial institutions under an agreement, and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The citizens accuse the institutions of being responsible for poverty in African countries through the disastrous consequences of a "development policy". Director Abderrahmane Sissako stages a dramaturgical combination of everyday life and negotiations, real and fictional characters, as well as hope and hopelessness. "The real drama here in Africa is not those who die, it's those who stay and who are disappointed, who have lost all hope," says Sissako about "Bamako".

Mali, 2006 - Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
118 min. - Original with English subtitles

Introduction and discussion: Susanne Leeb.
Free Admission.

SCALA Arthouse Cinema, Apothekenstr. 17, 21335 Lüneburg