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A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father. (imdb)

An account of apartheid, centered on Little Nandi and her family who live in a rural region where brutish whites coexist with submissive blacks in a hostile setting. (film.com)

The biblical story of Jacob and Esau. (imdb)

Bah (Fousseyni Sissoko) is the son of an African tribal chieftain and his girlfriend Batrou (Goundo Guisse) is the daughter of a military governor ruling over the region where the students live and attend the university. Both students are committed to political activism, and take shared stances that oppose the views of their parents, stances that also cause them to suffer at the hands of the brutal military.

The story of Zamiatou, a Songhaï woman, in North Eastern Mali. With two young sons, a pretty daughter and a handicapped husband, Zamiatou struggles to survive in a remote and barren area. She doesn't want her daughter to "work" for white people, but her determination will take her far from her family. (imdb)

A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The manager offers him a job, and as he watches out for the other man's welfare, begins to see how the company mistreats its workers. The manager is challenged between his ethics and the pressure from others to protect his own interests as dire problems surface at the factory. (imdb)

Guimba is a tyrant who rules over the town of Sitkali with an iron fist. Using a combination of sorcery and cruelty, he terrorizes people into submission. His one weakness is his son, Janguine, a randy, perverse dwarf who spends his days satisfying every appetite. Janguine is betrothed to the beautiful Kani, but prefers her more voluptuous mother Meya. (mubi.com)

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. The film also sketches the social/economic situation in urban Mali in the 1970s, particularly in relation to the treatment of women.

Ta Dona is the story of a quest for secret knowledge by a young hero, Sidy, a modern agronomist working for the Ministry of Rivers and Forests. It revisits a perennial African theme also at the center of Yeelen: the responsibility to use expert knowledge (traditional and now scientific) for the communal good not personal power.