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Yeelen

1987

In the ancient Bambara world, a young man endowed with magical powers flees across the Malian countryside from his sorcerer father, who means to destroy him, seeking the uncle who can help him confront his destiny. Souleymane Cissé's luminous, mythic masterpiece.

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