Category: Animation section

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The villagers of Sougouri and Sawoura are about to clash. Cattle belonging to the villagers of Sawoura are said to have ransacked a field belonging to an inhabitant of Sougouri. The prefect of Sabari sends in the heavy artillery to quell the crisis: the joking kinship.

Biofilmography

Serge Dimitri PITROIPA is a director, producer and set designer born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He did his secondary education in Ouagadougou. He continued at the School of Arts at the National Center for Arts and Crafts. In 2005, he participated in the first training in animation in Burkina Faso and joined the association Yelboundi. In 2009, he created “ABCA” the Association Burkinabè du Cinéma d’Animation. Since 2013 he has a production company “PiProduction”. Serge Dimitri PITROIPA has directed a dozen films (animation, documentary, fiction series, etc.)

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It all starts when her sick mother could not accompany her to the watering hole. She then takes it upon herself to go alone to the dangerous “Chasm of the Mountains”. On the way, she met Kolima, the sorcerer’s daughter, and Ghizarbo the monitor, who were on their way to a village meeting. Curious, she followed them and learned that the king’s son, Prince Dubal, was looking to get married. He was looking for the future princess. Only Doulassi met the recommended criteria. As she would have to return home before sunset, she hurried to fetch water. But Kolima and her sidekick decided to accompany her. Since then, no one has seen her. She vanished into thin air.

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Khalil SALMA is a versatile self-taught artist of pictorial expression. She is a photojournalist and a consultant in graphic design, but she is also a visual artist. She draws her inspiration from the secular cultures of Africa and that of her country in particular. As a designer, she integrates her ancestral signature in her works where innovation and art are mixed. While working as a computer graphics designer in a cell phone company, she discovered the first basics of balloon animation through her curiosity. She who has always made frozen images, discovers through this learning an innovative experience.

In 2018, she trains herself through tutorials she finds on the Internet and gradually adapts a childhood tale into an animated film that she entitled “Queen of Guera” in homage to this mythical mountain of her native land, symbol of goodness as well as authenticity in the feminine. The following months, she adapted the comic strip “The Hassan family” into animation. Khalil’s advertising animations are often broadcast on Chadian national television.

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A young black woman goes swimming in the sea and reflects on her experience of raising a child in Iceland, a country that is nothing like home. As she enters the icy water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy. Being in nature and facing her fears helps her heal.

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Fan SISSOKO is a French-Malian artist and filmmaker based in Reykjavik with a background in design. Her work explores themes of migration, motherhood, and neurodiversity. She has worked in London for the Migration Museum, the Museum of London, the Science Gallery Dublin and the National Trust. Her short animated film “On the Surface” was awarded a grant and has been screened at international festivals.

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Iba, 9 years old, not-yet-teenager-but-almost-teenager, is athletic, passionate and full of energy, but she has trouble accepting limits. Emeka, her 8 year old brother, is curious and clever, and makes an effort to assert himself and take his place. They are children like there are in all families: lively and endearing, adorable, crossed by the emotions and questionings of their age. But what Iba and Emeka have more, is Mamie Palimpseste. A super funny and super creative grandmother, very clever, hyperactive and full of common sense. To answer her grandchildren’s questions and problems, this incredible grandmother takes them on a journey through time that plunges them into stories from a more or less distant past: that of the heroes of Africa. Episode after episode, these extraordinary adventures enrich our little heroes in the present and help them grow up.

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Ingrid AGBO, a Togolese, is an author-producer who is in line with those who want to create and produce without limits of genres, for any audience, whether it is confidential or popular. The social changes and morals are, among others, the themes that motivate her commitment to films. For her, diversity in creations is above all the diversity of creators.

Synopsis

The return of Soundiata’s emissary announces a challenge from Djolofin Mansa. To take up this challenge, the warlords present themselves as volunteers, including Tiramakan.

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A graduate of the “Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédia Balla Fasseke Kouyate” in Bamako, Negueba TRAORE is a young man with a passion for animated films, which led him to study multimedia. In addition to the classic fields such as photography, video, graphic design… Negueba focused more on learning the techniques of 2D and 3D film animation. To perfect his level, he undertook training courses in several production companies, and accumulated training through the Internet, before landing at “Vortexgroups”, which accompanied him in the realization of his first animated film in 3D, entitled “The Affront” which deals with the story of a warrior chief of the Mali empire. Negueba intends to produce films based on original African stories, in order to enhance them, safeguard them and make them available to the rest of the world.

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In the grip of a bittersweet nostalgia, a woman takes refuge in the contemplation of butterflies that seem to populate a mysterious forest.

Biofilmography

Born in 1992 in Casablanca of Moroccan nationality, Sofia EL KHYARI left Morocco for Paris to study cultural management. She also learns animation in self-taught and makes her first short film. She obtained a Master’s degree in animation at the Royal College of Art in London and affirmed her taste for textures, mixed techniques and animated calligraphy.

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Sopi, who has just learned that her daughter, who is in town, has just obtained her baccalaureate, shares her joy with her neighbor Ahou.

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Pierre-Marie SINDO alias Piña was born on June 19, 1985 in Abidjan. Very early attracted by the desire to make animated films, he enters the Fine Arts of Abidjan to enrich his artistic culture. In 2007, he co-founded the animation studio “Sinanimation”. He has produced several animated works, including two references: “C kéma ?” and “Api!

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While flying over the miles for several days, a seagull lands in a village whose name it does not know and from which emerges a musical tune. The author of this melody is Awa. For her, music has become a way to soften her pain and not to see the harsh reality that her village is facing: pollution and the proliferation of jellyfish that have caused the disappearance of turtles and more precisely Soula7fet, her best friend.

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Nadia RAIS was born in Tunis where she obtained a master’s degree in art sciences and techniques at the School of Fine Arts in Tunis. As a visual artist, she participates in several exhibitions such as Imago Mundi (Luciano Benetton Collection), she resides at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and produces in parallel short animation films “L’Ambouba”, “L’Mrayet”, “Survival visa”, “Briska” and “Kendila”. Nadia RAIS uses an artistic technique developed in her films as well as in her paintings and which, in its evolution during several residencies, confirms well her style.

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N’Gozi, a great hunter, signs a pact with Kolou, the fallen genie, to become rich. In exchange for wealth, Kolou takes his only son; Impa N’Gozi abandons everything he has acquired and sets out to find his son. What he discovers is beyond his comprehension.

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Born in 1984 in Abidjan, Christian KOUAME is of Ivorian nationality. He is a young entrepreneur, producer and director of 3d animation films, obtained his advanced diploma in 3D animation technology at Accel Animation Academy in India in the years 2008- 2010 after his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computer Science obtained also in 2010 at Bangalore University in India. His professional life begins at Accel Animation Studios in Chennai (India) as a 3D VFX Artist. He will also be a 3D Trainer in Thailand in 2013 and then return during the same year in Ivory Coast to found The Brain Studios which is a studio specialized in 3D animation, special effects and commercials.

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In Kangaba in the deep Manding where the ancestors of certain families have pledged allegiance to the genies of the bush, transforming into hyenas, reptiles and other animals is a power accessible to all as long as they are initiated. The rivalry between Kangaba and its neighboring village Kilidougou has reached the point of no return. The advisors of the wise men, members of a secret society, have violently forbidden certain practices such as marriage between the people of Kangaba and its neighbor Kilidougou. Fady, the granddaughter of the spiritual guide Ba Kalifa of Kilidougou, is a very enlightened girl. Announced long before her birth by the elders as a messiah who would reunite all the communities, she will defy all the rules of these tribes. She forms a love relationship with Lamissa. She holds a power within her that she does not yet know. She is in fact from the hidden lineage of a visitor from outer space who was shipwrecked on earth from the time when the ocean covered the great Sahara desert of Timbuktu. Her first mission is to unite the two villages that are hers. Will Fady be able to take up this new challenge, knowing that the appearance of a chosen one like her is the harbinger of a great danger that awaits the mortal world.

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Cheick Ahmadou Ouattara was born in 1978 in Bamako, Mali. In Bamako Badalabougou, he did his primary studies. Passionate about drawing and graphic design, which he got from a mother who was a math teacher and a father who was an engineer and architect, he was selected among the best in drawing in Bamako for a two-year accelerated training by the Koreans. He then did his secondary studies at the Lycée Cheikh Anta Diop de Faso Kanu in Bamako where he obtained his Baccalaureate in exact sciences with top prizes in drawing. He continued his higher education at the Faculty of Sciences of Bamako (Sciences of the matter), where he fell in love with cinema and computer graphics. With his knowledge in mathematics (D.E.U.G in higher mathematics) and a self-taught formation in graphic oriented development, he created a company ” Virtual 3D Communication ” specialized in special effects FX cinema and 3D animation for advertising and cinema. His first scenarios were in the field of advertising for large structures such as L’Oréal Morocco, Sony Morocco (in 3D spots). He has to his credit educational films (3D animation film to raise awareness in rural areas) for some NGOs and also for the national channel of Mali.