Alfreda’s Cinema Presents
Yeelen (1987) by Souleymane Cissé
📍Prospect Park Boathouse
Location: Prospect Park Boathouse, 101 East Drive, Brooklyn, NY
Enter through: Ocean Ave. & Lincoln Road.
🕗 Wednesday, August 14 | 8PM
🎟 FREE’ish with RSVP | Bring your own seating
For our Black August screening, we invite you into the luminous world of Yeelen, a cornerstone of African cinema that interweaves myth, nature, and spiritual inheritance. Set against the stunning landscapes of Mali and rooted in Bambara cosmology, Yeelen tells the story of Nianankoro, a young mystic on a journey of survival, transformation, and reckoning with the powers that raised him. Fire, sun, water, and earth guide and test him—each element holding both danger and revelation.
Opening the evening is Kai Hartman’s If the Sun Exploded Today, a visually striking short that meditates on solar power, ancestry, and time. In conversation with Yeelen, it invites us to think deeply about what we inherit—and what we’re called to become.
Held at the Prospect Park Boathouse, this open-air screening brings together the celestial and the grounded, cinema and ceremony.
About Prospect Park Alliance
Prospect Park Alliance is the non-profit organization that sustains, restores and advances Prospect Park, Brooklyn's Backyard, in partnership with the City of New York. The Alliance provides critical staff and resources that keep the park green and vibrant for the diverse communities that call Brooklyn home. The Alliance cares for the woodlands and natural areas; restores the park’s buildings and landscapes; creates new park destinations; and provides free or low-cost volunteer, education and recreation programs. Through the work of the Alliance, Prospect Park is an international model for the care of urban parks, and one of the premier green spaces in the United States. Learn more at www.prospectpark.org.
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