Tales of Africa
Part 1 – 6 contes de l’Afrique Centrale et de l’Ouest
6 filmsTales of Africa est une collection de 6 courts métrage d’animation novatrice réalisée par Djilali Beskri. A travers le personnage de Papa Nzenu, griot du XXIe Siècle et fil conducteur de la série, elle propose un voyage sur le continent africain à travers ses contes. Du Congo au Mali, en passant par le Cameroun et le Bénin, Papa Nzenu ouvre les esprits de ses contemporains en leur inculpant la sagesse des contes anciens. Tales of Africa un programme riche et sans frontières !
- Young audience
- 2016
- Cameroon
- 13min
"The hunter and the antelope" is the first episode of the animated series Tales of Africa. Each episode tells a tale or a fairy tale with griot dad ‘n’ Zenutales at each of its staging in different parts of Africa : a long time ago, in Cameroon, a poor hunter could no longer find game. Meeting a wounded antelope changed his life and sealed their destinies.
- Young audience
- 2014
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 12min
Tales of Africa EP6/S1. Shamazulu just married the man of her dreams. Unfortunately, she has a complex: her nose seems very big. On the night of her wedding, a genie appears and offers to change her nose, in exchange for a promise: never to abandon her husband.
- Young audience
- 2014
- Burkina Faso
- 15min
Tales of Africa EP5/S1. Papa Nzezu is convinced that we always need a little helper. To prove it, he launches into a fantastic story: in a dark forest, a witch kidnaps a group of women and a little girl, Malika. Will she succeed in getting them out of there?
- Young audience
- 2017
- Mali
- 11min
Tales of Africa EP1/S1. A young girl is disappointed by her friend's gift: a simple shell. Papa Nzenu tells her that one day, in Mali, the destiny of a young man changed after his uncle gave him a calabash seed. The value of a gift is not always material...
- Young audience
- 2017
- Benin
- 14min
Tales of Africa EP4/S1. One stormy night, a very sick man gives his son an assignment: pay off what they owe and come back to his bedside. He promised to tell him three truths he is the only one to hold. Unfortunately, when the son gets home, it is too late...
- Young audience
- 2017
- Senegal
- 14min
- last chance
Tales of Africa, EP3/S1. One night, a woman brings a little boy into the world. Unfortunately, he is taken away from her... Years later, he is a wrestler and must fight to earn his living. Will he succeed in freeing himself from this situation and finally find his mother?