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ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED MOVIE REVIEW
Maciej Kur is back and he is once again covering the Annecy Animation Festival in France! Spidermike joins him to take a look at some of the wild new animated films from around the world coming out soon. Based on the award winning novel by Ahmadou Kourouma, this story plunges into the darkest corners of Liberia’s civil war but told from the perspective of a child. We follow a 10-year-old Guinean boy named Birahima. After the death of his crippled mother, he is sent to live with his aunt Mahan, guided by the charismatic but disreputable witch doctor Yacouba, who dazzles him with tales of Western lifestyles (Michael Jordan sneakers and all) and magical anti-bullet charms. Their journey quickly turns harrowing when their bus is ambushed by a group of child soldiers lead by the religious fanatic War Lord. To survive, Birahima is forced to join them. Shedding his innocence, he’s thrust into a brutal world of death, drugs, and ruthless survival of the fittest. As Birahima and Yacouba continue their search for aunt Mahan, they crisscross a shattered country, meeting various warlords, joining their different factions, and exposing viewers to Liberia’s complex political chaos and horrifying child rights violations (to put it mildly). Directed by Zaven Najjar, this French, Belgian, Luxembourgish, and Canadian co-production is not for the faint of heart, sadly with some mixed quality CGI animation.
DIRECTED BY: Zaven Najjar
STARRING: Naky Sy Savane, Raymond Dikoume, Adrienne Irving, Thomas Ngijol, Marc Zinga, Annabelle Lengronne
YOUR REVIEWERS
Maciej Kur (Infestation)
Maciej Kur is a Polish comic and film script writer, director and reviewer, and decidedly the biggest fan and most loyal supporter of Oneofus.net. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a master’s degree and the Academy of Film and Television. Co-creator of the comic book series Dollicious and Emilka Sza (with Magdalena Kania ) and Lil i Put, (with Piotr Bednarczyk ) and many others. Awarded in 2014 for a comic book in the spirit of Janusz Christa and awarded for “Złoty Puchar” in 2023. He wrote scripts for new comic books in the Polish cult series “Kayko and Kokosh”, as well as episodes of an animated series based on it (available on Netflix). He wrote for many other shows including “Kicia Kocia” (Kitty Kotty), “Pompik the Bison”, “Pucio”, “Hip-Hip and Hurra” and the upcoming animated movies “The Shrew of Destiny” and “Tytus, Romek and A’tomek”. He also directed a documentary about Polish animation legend “Witold Giersz”. Big lover of the art of animation and comic books.
Michael Riojas (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
The man with the ever-changing nicknames. Born in Austin, Riojas was rocketed to Del Rio, Texas, a literal Smallville. In his youth, he was bitten by a radioactive… okay, look. Mike is not very good at this whole “talking about himself” thing. But he has been so obsessed with comics, video games, and anime since childhood- that if one has to choose between listening to Joe Quesada or Mike over any obscure Spider-Man trivia, they go to him (or, at least Martin Thomas once said so). He is also a big fan of “Ghostbusters” (he even owns his own jumpsuit and two, that’s right, TWO proton packs!), collects toys and video games, and will defend “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” if provoked. He lives in Austin with his beloved Dachshund-Maltese and trusted sidekick, Dean. He can also be heard on RageSelect. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram.
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