CINEOS Premiere
Bamako
In a Bamako courtyard, ordinary life goes on — laundry, cooking, a marriage quietly ending — while African witnesses put the World Bank and the IMF on literal trial for the ruin of a continent.
The warmth of the courtyard lowers your guard while the testimony accumulates a slow, substantial heaviness that makes the film hard to leave cleanly. It forbids catharsis on purpose — no verdict, no accountability, a death that closes nothing — so what stays is a durable image of impotence, the faces and voices lingering as haunting rather than relief.
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FAQ
Is this a real trial?
It's a staged one — actual lawyers and witnesses playing themselves in a courtyard — and that invented frame is what lets it say out loud what no real court has been allowed to.
Does the film reach a verdict?
No, and the refusal is deliberate. The absence of judgment is the argument: this is what accountability looks like when history has never delivered it.