Bamako

A courtroom drama and a portrait of everyday Mali life, Bamako approaches both subjects with equal skill and success, depicting a trial taking place in Bamako amidst the daily life that is going on in the city. Two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are guided by special interest of developed nations or whether it is corruption and individual nations' mismanagement that is guilty of the current financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries.