Allah is not obliged

Directed by Zaven Najjar

Co-written by Zaven Najjar and Karine Winczura

Animation Feature film 77min

Based on the eponymous novel by Ahmadou Kourouma
Renaudot price and Goncourt des lycéens 2000

Co-produced with Creative Touch Studios, Paul Thiltges Distribution, Need Production, Lunamine, Yzanakio

Distributed by BAC Films, Maison 4 Tiers (Canada), Gkids (United States)

International Sales MK2

Broadcasted by TV5 Monde, Canal+ International, RTBF (Belgium), Proximus (Belgium), Radio Canada (Canada), Pathé BC (Africa)

With the support of TV5 Monde, GKIDS, Proximus, Canal+ International, Eurimages

To be released

Synopsis

Birahima, a ten-year-old Guinean orphan, tells with the help of four dictionaries and a lot of irony how he becomes a child soldier when he tries to join his aunt in Liberia.