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BAMAKO

Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako


Press Coverage, new yoRk, april 20, 2008


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DVD TALK
"Bamako" review, by Glenn Erickson, April 20, 2008

THE GUARDIAN
"...the most sophisticated (though little seen) picture about Africa..." - "Bamako" in UK's The Guardian Top 50 of 2007, by Philip French, April 12, 2008

SALON
"...witty and tragic experience with a dynamite emotional payoff." - Salon picks "Bamako" as the Best Indie Movie of 2007, by Andrew O'Hehir, January 10, 2008

RIZ KHAN SHOW
"Bamako" on Riz Khan Show, Louverture producers answers your questions, July 16, 2007

THE WASHINGTON POST
Out of Africa: "Bamako," a Fanciful Tale With a Moral Ending, by Ann Hornaday, June 15, 2007

ART THREAT
"Bamako" film puts the World Bank on trial and wins, by Ezra Winton, April 9, 2007

DEMOCRACY NOW!
"...the people of Bamako against the World Bank and the IMF," February 16, 2007

INDIEWIRE
Law & Order: Abderrahmane Sissako's "Bamako," February 15, 2007

THE NEW YORK TIMES
World Bank in the Docket, Charged With Africa's Woes, by A. O. Scott, February 14, 2007

NEW YORKER FILMS
New Yorker Films Acquires "Bamako," February 14, 2007

THE VILLAGE VOICE
Festival Film: Friend or Foe?, by Nathan Lee, February 13, 2007

PEOPLE'S WORLD
Bamako: An African indictment of the World Bank, by Bill Meyer, November 17, 2006

Le Monde
"Bamako" : le procès fictif d'un vrai crime, pillage du Sud par le Nord, October 23, 2006

TimeOut London
"Bamako," by Dave Calhoun, October 19, 2006

Spirituality & Practice
An Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako

Spirituality & Practice
A gritty and gutsy examination of how African nations are suffering incredible hardships and poverty under the boots of Western globalization policies, by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat