France / 2006 / 99mins / Animation / Arabic and French

This new film by the director of the hit Kirikou films is a delightful animated fairy tale set in North Africa. Michael Ocelot creates a magical world for the story of two brothers and their quest to free a captive fairy, while handling themes of race and tolerance with keen insight.

Michel Ocelot

Michel Ocelot is a French writer, character designer, storyboard artist, and director of animated films and television programs (formerly also animator, background artist, narrator, and other roles in earlier works) and a former president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 début feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d’honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to commandeur earlier the same year. Michel Ocelot was the guest of honor at Animation First 2019, on the 20th anniversary of the release of his acclaimed film Kirikou and the Sorceress. His 2018 feature film, Dilili in Paris, set in the Belle Epoque, won the 2019 Cesar award, France’s highest film honor.
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