2006. 115 min. Mali/USA/France. Writer/Director: Abderrahmane Sissako. Feature Film In French / Bambara with English subtitles. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is...
Though all African films, because of Africa's perceived problems, tend to be political, Sissako's Bamako might very well be Africa's first true political film. The honor obviously goes to the Battle of Algiers but Gillo Pontecorvo wasn't an African.
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