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"BAMAKO" World Premiere, Cannes Film Festival 2006 May 30th, 2006 
Elia Suleiman, Maji-da Abdi, Abderrahmane Sissako, Danny Glover, and Aïssa Maïga
"The reason which drove me to make this film, explains director Abderrahmane Sissako, comes from my outlook on Africa: not the continent which is mine, but a zone of injustice which directly affects me. When we live on a continent where the act of making a film is rare and difficult, we say to ourselves that we can speak in the name of others. Faced with the gravity of the African situation, I felt a sense of urgency to evoke the hypocrisy of the North towards the countries of the South." |