Kirikou
Et la sorcière
A film by Michel Ocelot
© 1998 Les Armateurs/Odec Kid Cartoons/France 3 Cinéma/Monipoly/Trans Europe Film/Exposure/RTBF/Studio O
Once upon a time, in a small village, somewhere in Africa… A voice coming from the belly of a pregnant woman, says «Mother deliver me». And out comes a little boy, he cuts his umbilical cord and announces : «I am Kirikou». He soon discovers that his village is cursed by Karaba, a terrifying sorceress surrounded by obedient and ferocious fetishes… Will Kirikou succeed in setting his village free from the terrible curse?
Scenario: Michel Ocelot
Graphic universe: Michel Ocelot
Technical: 2D
Lengh: 71’
Target: Famille
Date: 1998
Coproducer: Les Armateurs / Odec Kid Cartoons (Belgique) / Monipoly (Luxembourg) / Club d’Investissement Média / Ministère de la Communauté Francophone de Belgique / RTBF / Eurimages/ Centre National de la Cinématographie / France 3 Cinéma.
Distribution: France Télévisions Distribution
Awards:
- Grand Prix du Festival d’Annecy
- Bafta Awards (Londres)
- Silver Trophy (Le Caire)
- Grand Prize (Kecskmet – Hongrie)
- Audience Prize (Zanzibar)
- Feature Film Prize (Espinho)
- Feature Film Prize (Sousse – Tunisie)
- Silver Castle
- Prize Quality of Life (Bellinzona – Suisse)
- Film Prize (Krok – Ukraine)
- Prize of the Children, Jury (Chicago)
- Special Prize of the Jury (Montreal)
- Feature Film Prize (Malmô – Finlande)
- Prize of the Jury of Youth (Vancouver)
- Cinekid award (Amsterdam)
- Silver Goat (Poznan – Pologne)
- Prize of the Best Feature Film (Montevideo – Uruguay)
- First Prize (Cartagena – Colombie), Special Prize (Houston)…
