Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
Cast
Max Renaudin
Maki (voice)
Simon Abkarian
Hassan (voice)
Vernon Dobtcheff
Le vieux sage (voice)
Roger Dumas
Charles X (voice)
Ronit Elkabetz
Bouboulina (voice)
Mohamed Fellag
Mahmoud (voice)
Déborah François
Zarafa adulte (voice)
Thierry Frémont
Moreno (voice)
Philippe Morier-Genoud
Saint-Hilaire (voice)
Mostéfa Stiti
Pacha
François-Xavier Demaison
Malaterre (voice)
Crew
Jean-Christophe Lie
Director, Animation
Rémi Bezançon
Director, Writer
Alexander Abela
Writer
Sophie Reine
Editor
Adeline Bonacchi
Assistant Director
Valérie Schermann
Producer
Christophe Jankovic
Producer
Mael Gourmelen
Animation
Peter Dodd
Animation
Yoshimichi Tamura
Animation, Lead Animator
Satjit Matharu
Animation
Antoine Antin
Animation
Ric Bernardo
Animation
Julien Bizat
Animation
Bouhalem Bouchiba
Animation
Tom Caulfield
Animation
Patrick Delage
Animation
Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang
Animation
Laurent Kircher
Animation
Uriel Mimran
Animation
Fernando Moro
Animation
Nicolas Quere
Animation
Sébastien Rouxel
Animation
Stéphane Sainte-Foi
Animation
Mourad Elias Seddiki
Animation
Thierry Torres Rubio
Animation
Sam Weng
Animation
Xavier Ramonède
Animation
Baptiste Rogron
Animation
Sébastien Vovau
Animation
Charlotte Walton
Animation
Jorge A. Capote
Animation
Pedro Daniel García Pérez
Animation
Misael Gutierrez
Animation
Arturo Hernandez
Animation
José Mansuy
Animation
Javier Martin Lapeyra
Animation
Carlos Martinez
Animation
Juan Pablo Navas Rosco
Animation
Slaven Reese
Animation
Guillermo Segui
Animation
Glenn Arriola
Animation
Joseph Balderas
Animation
Rick Baldos
Animation
Tony Bugas
Animation
Nono Collao
Animation
Antoine Dartige Du Fournet
Animation
Sallie Estacio
Animation
Cerissa Grieve
Animation
Virginie Hanrigou
Animation
Alex Iguban
Animation
Noriel Israel
Animation
Jérémie Mazurek
Animation
Benoit Meurzec
Animation
Nats Miranda
Animation
Vladi Naval
Animation
Manny Plantilla
Animation
Oliver Regoniel
Animation
Rommel Santiago
Animation
Arnold Taroy
Animation
Noel Villano
Animation
Bob Wolkers
Animation
Laurent Perez del Mar
Original Music Composer
Eric Omond
Lead Animator
Olivier Bizet
Production Manager
