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Kirikou and the Sorceress
Why this pick
The essential Kirikou adventure shares the same spare, storybook African-inspired visual world, gentle ingenuity, animal encounters and oral-folktale rhythm.
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MOVIE2005 1h 15m FRA
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Another episodic return to Kirikou’s village, built from compact fables that celebrate curiosity, courage, community and the natural world.
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Tales of the Night
Why this pick
Michel Ocelot again uses a collection of concise fairy tales, here with luminous silhouette animation, playful magic and a soothing bedtime-story cadence.
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Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
Why this pick
It retains Ocelot’s ornate folk-art imagination and childlike sense of adventure, following a warm-hearted quest through a richly patterned fairy-tale world.
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The Painting
Why this pick
A delicate French animated fable with stylised artwork, a compact quest and an inviting storybook tone that values empathy over spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is a sub-story to ''Kirikou and the Sorceress'' rather than a straight sequel. The movie is set while Kirikou is still a child and Karaba is still a sorceress. Like ''Princes et Princesses'' and ''Les Contes de la nuit'', it is an anthology film comprising several episodic stories, each of them describing Kirikou's interactions with a different animals. It is however unique among Michel Ocelot's films, not only in that it is co-directed by Bénédicte Galup (who has previously worked with him as an animator) but also for each of the stories being written by a different person (in all other cases, Ocelot has been the sole writer and director of his films).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michel Elias
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