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  • Bamako (2006)
    Review preview for Bamako

    Issue-driven drama has rarely been so polemic as it is in this fierce attack on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s role in African poverty.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Scathing attack on the World Bank and IMF's role in African poverty, set within a loose narrative framework.
  • Code Unknown (2000)
    Review preview for Code Unknown

    As usual, Haneke never lets us forget the artifice of what we are watching.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2.5 out of 5
    Self-consciously obtuse drama.
  • Faro - Goddess Of The Waters (2007)
    Review preview for Faro - Goddess Of The Waters

    The water rippling around the village mirrors the ebb and flow of relationships within Salif Traoré’s film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An engineer ties to lay old ghosts to rest when he returns to his home village.

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