is a 2005 French animated feature film. It premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival

2005 Cannes Film Festival

The 2005 Cannes Film Festival started on May 11 and ran until May 22. Twenty movies from 13 countries were selected to compete. The awards were announced on May 21...

 on 13 May and, unlike its predecessor, received only festival screenings in all English-speaking territories. It was released on English-subtitled DVD-Video

DVD-Video

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 in the United States

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 by KimStim (distributed by Kino International) on 29 July 2008 as Kirikou and the Wild Beast.http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0019APR8A

Synopsis

The film is a sub-story to Kirikou and the Sorceress

Kirikou and the Sorceress

Kirikou and the Sorceress is a 1998 Franco-Belgian animated film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. Drawn directly from West African folk tales, it tells of how a newborn boy saves his village by ridding them of the evil witch Karaba...

rather than a straight sequel

Sequel

A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...

. The movie is set while Kirikou is still a child and Karaba is still a sorceress. Like Princes et princesses

Princes et princesses

Ciné si is a 1989 French silhouette animation television series conceived, written and directed by Michel Ocelot and realised at La Fabrique, consisting of short fairy tale and retro-future stories performed by the same animated "actors." A critical success but commercial failure at the time, no...

and Les Contes de la nuit, it is an anthology film

Anthology film

An anthology film is a feature film consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event . Sometimes each one is directed by a different director...

 comprising several episodic stories, each of them describing Kirikou's interactions with a different animals. It is however unique among Michel Ocelot

Michel Ocelot

Michel Ocelot is a French writer, character designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association...

'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
  Emile Abossolo M'Bo
  Emile Abossolo M'Bo is a French television, theatre and film actor who has played in French, African and American productions.-Personal life:Abossolo was born in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon....
  
   as L'Oncle (The Uncle)

External links

• Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages official Web site (French)
• Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages at the Barbican Centre
  Barbican Centre
  The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory...
  
  
• Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages at Le Palais des dessins animés