Kirikou and the Wild Beasts

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (French: Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages) is a 2005 French animated feature film. It premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival on 13 May^[1] and, unlike its predecessor, received only festival screenings in all English-speaking territories. It was released on English-subtitled DVD-Video in the United States by KimStim (distributed by Kino International) on 29 July 2008 as Kirikou and the Wild Beast.

Synopsis

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).

Cast

• Pierre-Ndoffé Sarr as Kirikou
• Awa Sene Sarr as Karaba
• Robert Liensol as Le Grand-père (The Grandfather)
• Marie-Philomène Nga as La Mère (The Mother)
• Emile Abossolo M'Bo as L'Oncle (The Uncle)

References

External links

• Official website of Michel Ocelot
• Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages official Web site (French)
• Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages at the Barbican Centre
• Kirikou and the Wild Beasts at the Internet Movie Database
• Kirikou Et Les Bêtes Sauvages at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Kirikou and the Wild Beasts at AllMovie
• Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages at Le Palais des dessins animés