Aïssa Maïga

Maiga's Mele in Bamako (2006) is a singer whose marriage is breaking down while a symbolic trial of the World Bank and IMF unfolds in a shared courtyard. Her personal story keeps everyday feeling present beside the film's large economic arguments. The French actress of Senegalese and Malian heritage offers an accessible human thread through an unusual form: watch how domestic life continues around the testimony instead of becoming merely its illustration.