Baara
New York African Film Festival 2019
May 30 - June 4, 2019
A young factory manager finds himself faced with an emotional and ethical awakening when he begins to see how his company mistreats its workers in the great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé’s political drama.
Q&A with Souleymane Cissé
In the great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé’s political drama, a young factory manager encounters a man walking along a road who tells him his family members work as servants in the manager’s household. The man then offers him a job, and as he watches out for his welfare, begins to see how the company mistreats its workers. As dire problems surface at the factory, the manager is then challenged to choose between his ethics and the pressure from others to protect his own interests.
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