feature · drama · manifesto
A major early Malian feature following Souleymane Cisse's own Den Muso, Baara follows a factory worker in Bamako and the young manager who begins to see the mistreatment built into the plant's post-colonial capitalist structure.
Fun fact: Baara means work in Bambara, a title that doubles as the film's central subject and its political argument.
Notes: Runtime 93 minutes. Corrected 2026-07-29: Cannes's own materials credit Den Muso (1975), also by Cisse, as Mali's first feature-length fiction film, with Baara following it; removed the "first feature film produced in Mali" claim from the description.
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