This moving docudrama unfolds in a courtyard in Mali’s capital, where an extraordinary trial is convened: African civil society brings a case against global financial institutions for the devastation wrought by structural adjustment and neoliberal governance. As testimony proceeds, the film weaves between legal argument, everyday domestic life, and moments of lyrical abstraction. Neither conventional documentary nor fiction, Bamako uses the intimacy of shared space to render global inequality legible at a human scale, offering a formally inventive and politically incisive meditation on debt, sovereignty, and postcolonial responsibility