A REFRESHING change from the Disneyfied setting of "The Lion King," which somehow made Africa look a bit like an air-brushed theme park in Southern California, the animated feature "Kirikou and the ...

There are no showtimes for Kirikou and the Sorceress. You can stream it or buy it on digital platforms below. Kirikou is a little boy from a West African village. He wants to know why the evil fairy ...

From the depths of his Blue Cave, Kirikou's Grandfather declares: "The story of Kirikou and The Witch" was too short. There was not the time to tell all that Kirikou has accomplished. For he has ...

For months, I’ve had in my possession a video cassette of Kirikou and the Sorceress, a 1998 French-made gem that only received its first Dallas screenings last February. Local filmmaker John ...

With its delicate, fairy-tale bones and layer of politically conscious muscle, Azur and Asmar is a sleek and yet slightly unwieldy animal. The fourth animated feature from French director Michel ...

“The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess,” BAFTA-winning French director Michel Ocelot (“Kirikou and the Sorceress”)’s anticipated new animated feature, has been sold by Paris-based Playtime to ...

PARIS — Disney’s symbol-laden “The Chronicles of Narnia” isn’t the only film delivering lessons in life to kids this holiday season. The E5.2 million ($6.2 million) animated feature “Kirikou and the ...

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 ...

"While I wanted to talk about shaping fake wildlife images, I realised that I’ve been shaping myself according to the patriarchal gaze from the outside" ...