New Yorker Films has acquired all U.S. rights to writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako's political comedy-drama "Bamako," featuring co-star and executive producer Danny Glover. A panel discussion will be held on Tuesday that features Sissako, Harry Belafonte, economist Jeffrey David Sachs, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Mahmood Mamdani, president of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa. The feature, which also was selected for May's Festival de Cannes and last month's Toronto International Film Festival, revolves around a couple in the process of breaking up and several people who testify in a court located outside their home in the city of Bamako, the capital of the West African country of Mali.

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