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Yeelen Series: 30 Years of Kino International [June 29 – July 12, 2007] Director: Souleymane Cissé, Country: Mali, Release: 1987, Runtime: 105 Souleymane Cissé’s stunning Yeelen evokes the ancient Bambara culture of Mali well before the country’s 16th-century invasion by Morocco. A young man arrives at the crossroads between childhood and adulthood. His father cruelly prevents him from deciphering the elements of the Bambara sacred rites. His mother rescues him and sends him away on a heroic journey. The boy masters the tribe’s initiation rites and ascends to the Bambara throne, wielding the scepter-like Kore as he confronts his father. Yeelen is a local drama with universal themes; equal parts creation myth and Oedipal reality, it presents a decisive anatomy of social responsibility.

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