Sory Ibrahima Koïta

When an elderly man reveals that his son Hammala is the illegitimate son of a purported witch, the ugly side of social customs rears its head. Shunned by the community, an ashamed Hammala leaves the village, only to return four years later, despite his outcast status.

In a Malian village, Nyamanton, a young man from a noble family, defies convention by marrying Koudédia, a griotte regarded as being of lower social status. Determined to punish their union, Gnanson and the village elders turn a masked ceremony into an instrument of persecution. As the Komo spreads terror and the monkey dance begins, the couple must confront a tradition being used to deny them the freedom to choose their own destiny.

In the village of Kakoro, a mysterious buffalo capable of assuming human form spreads terror and repeatedly defeats every hunter sent against it. When the creature threatens the honor of the local hunters, the renowned master Baladjigui and his apprentices set out to uncover the supernatural power protecting it. Their pursuit becomes a test of courage, ancestral knowledge and humanity’s fragile relationship with the unseen forces of nature.