Bibliograph

Yeelen, Brightness, Filimus SISE bèna Cissé Films ; ka dja laben nè, Solomani Sise

Type

Label

Yeelen, Brightness, Filimus SISE bèna Cissé Films ; ka dja laben nè, Solomani Sise

Language

bam

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

Yeelen

Medium

videorecording DVD

Responsibility statement

Filimus SISE bèna Cissé Films ; ka dja laben nè, Solomani Sise

Runtime

105

Sub title

Brightness

Summary

A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial "brightness" which created the world

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Brightness

Classification