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PICTURING DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF BAMAKO Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Runtime: 90 Abderrahmane Sissako’s powerful film Bamako offers a pointed critique of decades of so-called “development policies” fostered by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other international agencies, charging them with actually worsening Africa’s economic plight. The film is meant as a polemic, but how convincing are its primary claims? Although many faults can be found in the dealings of these agencies with Africa and other economically disadvantaged areas, don’t they in fact offer the only way out of underdevelopment? Reform, not rejection, might be what’s really needed. Expanding the discussion of issues raised by the film, the Festival will present a discussion on Tuesday, October 3. Joining Abderrahmane Sissako will be actor and activist Harry Belafonte; Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University; Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University; and Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia and winner of the 2001 Novel Prize in Economics. Event at the Furman Gallery adjacent to the Walter Reade Theater's lobby, 165 West 65th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenues on the plaza level.

Free Admission Tues Oct 3: 6:30* *Furman Gallery adjacent to the Walter Reade Theater's lobby. Currently, there are no longer any passes available for this event. Passes may become available to the standby line prior to the event at the Walter Reade Theater's box office. Please note: only two passes per patron.