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In a film set in this country, a videographer talks about filming funerals, which prompts his companion to respond “Nothing’s better than death.” In that film set in this country, a woman repeatedly asks for help tying the back of her dress amidst a trial taking place in her front yard. Danny Glover helped produce a film set in this country in which he appears as a cowboy in a fictional western several children watch on television. In another film set in this country, an extreme wide shot captures a man wading across a river after he shoots the man (-5[1])who had speared (*) GPS, his favorite cow. A lawsuit against the World Bank and its associates is levied by the people of Africa in one film set in this country, where another film chronicles the takeover of the title city by the jihadists of Ansar Dine. (10[1])For 10 points, Abderrahmane Sissako used what country as the setting of his films Bamako and Timbuktu? ■END■

ANSWER: Mali [Accept Republic of Mali]
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TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
2025 SEANCE - Online2025-02-224100%25%124.50
2025 SEANCE - Stanford2025-02-221100%100%145.00