Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 75m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France
- Director: Michel Ocelot, Bénédicte Galup
- Stars: Pierre-Ndoffé Sarr, Awa Sène Sarr, Robert Liensol, Marie-Philomène Nga, Emile Abossolo M'bo
- keywords: adult animation, woman director
- Production_studio: Les Armateurs, Armada Films
- The Kirikou and the Wild Beasts is featured in the top rankings of 2005
- #46 in Top Animation of 2005
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).