SYNOPSIS
Whoever pays
his debts gets richer, says the proverb. Sometimes, proverbs
can be wrong. In the seventies, sub-Saharan countries borrowed
millions of dollars in developmental aid. Some of these countries,
such as Mali, have already paid back more than seven times the
money initially borrowed from rich countries. Nonetheless, the
balance of the debt to be paid is still multiplied by a factor
of four. The mathematics of finance sometimes work in rather
strange ways... Some of the borrowed amounts have even found
their way into Swiss bank accounts. The present film _ written
as an essay in economics in the first person _ therefore raises
the following question: who is helping whom ? In Bambara, Djourou
means "debt" as well as "a
rope round your neck". Malians are strangled by a debt crisis
and the question is: who holds the rope and why doesn't he release
it ? Just like under a palaver tree, this film relates the diverse
and often irreconcilable opinions of a Malian minister of finance,
an expert in development economics, two Swiss lawyers in charge
of finding dictatorship money hidden in Swiss bank accounts, Malian
cotton growers, an executive of the IMF, and the ghost of a deposed
dictator. The purpose of this film, therefore, is to go back into
the history of the country to try and understand the various metamorphoses
of a debt produced by a foreign economy, and reflect on the possible
outcomes.
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