Underplayed Gems

The Terrible Child (1993)

The Terrible Child poster
Original title
L'enfant Terrible
Directed by
Kadiatou Konaté
Genre
animation
Country
Mali, Belgium
Runtime
11 min
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A short animated film using puppet animation. It adapts a Bambara folk tale about a troublesome child from West African stories.

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What happens

L'Enfant terrible est un court métrage d'animation belgo-malien réalisé par Kadiatou Konaté en 1993. Il utilise l'animation de marionnettes. Il s'agit de l'adaptation d'un conte bambara mettant en scène un enfant terrible des contes ouest-africains. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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