Year of Production 2025
- Secret Floor, The, Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, 2025
- Aleque & Issay aka Bye Bye Beijing, Sweden, 2025
- Alice dance, dance, dance, France, 2025
- All That’s Left of You, Germany, Cyprus, Palestine, Greece, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, 2025
- Allah Is Not Obliged, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Canada, 2025
- Altar Boys, The, Poland, 2025
- Amrum, Germany, 2025
- Arco, France, 2025
- Badgers, The, Norway, 2025
- Beef, Spain, Mexico, 2025
- Bert Ruins Everything, Sweden, 2025
- Billy the Cowboy Hamster, France, 2025
- Boy at the Edge of the World, The, Poland, Turkey, Spain, 2025
- Brides, Great Britain, Italy, 2025
- Brightly Shining, Norway, 2025
- Brightly Shining, Norway, 2025
- Broken Voices, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025
- Brother, Poland, 2025
- Bürglkopf, Austria, 2025
- Bugaboo, The, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025
- Bumblebee's Summer, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025
- Captain Sabertooth and the Countess of Grel, Norway, 2025
- CARAVAN, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Italy, 2025
- Castle, The, Italy, France, 2025
- Checkered Ninja 3, Denmark, 2025
- Chickenhare and the Secret of the Groundhog, Belgium, France, 2025
- Christy, Ireland, Great Britain, 2025
- Circusboy, Germany, 2025
- Comeback, Belgium, Netherlands, 2025
- Cotton Queen, Germany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Quatar, Saudi-Arabia, Sudan, 2025
- Cricket Dreams, Netherlands, 2025
- Crown Prince and the Return of the Tyrant, The, Sweden, 2025
- Dancing Queen in Hollywood, Norway, 2025
- Dandelion's Odyssey, France, Belgium, 2025
- Decorado, Spain, 2025
- Defiant, Finland, 2025
- Detective Bruno. Baltic Gold, Poland, 2025
- DJ Ahmet, North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, 2025
- Dreamers, The, France, 2025
- Ella & Friends – Operation Otter, Finland, 2025
- Elvis Starling, Slovenia, 2025
- Enzo, France, Belgium, Italy, 2025
- Fantastique, Belgium, France. Netherlands, 2025
- Fichtelberg, Czech Republic, 2025
- Fleak, Finland, France, Malaysia, Poland, 2025
- Flophouse America, Norway, Netherlands, USA, 2025
- Forastera, Spain, Sweden, Italy, 2025
- Forever With You, Italy, 2025
- Fränk, Estonia, 2025
- Ghost School, Germany, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, 2025
- Girl Named Willow, A, Germany, 2025
- Girls Don't Cry, Germany, 2025
- Girls from Above, The, Belgium, France, 2025
- Goat Girl, Romania, Spain, 2025
- Grandpa, Let's Go, Poland, Czech Republic, 2025
- Grow, Great Britain, 2025
- Heidi – Rescue of the Lynx, Germany, Belgium, Spain, 2025
- High School Heist, Czech Republic, 2025
- I Saw a “Suno”, Hungary, Belgium, 2025
- I Shall See, Netherlands, 2025
- If I Die Today, Denmark, 2025
- If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart Into Your Mouth And Smile, Austria, 2025
- Kevlar Soul, Sweden, Norway, Finland, 2025
- King Matt the First, Poland, 2025
- King of the Wanderers, Netherlands, 2025
- Kyma, France, 2025
- Lampo, the Travelling Dog 2, Poland, 2025
- Larp – the Movie, Poland, 2025
- Last Whale Singer, The, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada, 2025
- Legend of Ochi, The, Finland, USA, Great Britain, 2025
- Legendaries, The, France, Belgium, 2025
- Leo & Lou, Spain, Great Britain, Romania, 2025
- Light of Aisha, The, Spain, Germany, 2025
- Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, France, 2025
- Little Caribou, Ireland, 2025
- Little Sister, The, France, Germany, 2025
- Little Trouble Girls, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, 2025
- Live For Me, Netherlands, Luxembourg, 2025
- LONEY & HAVENDER, Germany, Czech Republic, 2025
- Lotte & Totte - My first friend , Denmark, 2025
- Luminous Life, A, Portugal, France, 2025
- Magnificient Life, A, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, 2025
- Mary Anning, Switzerland, Belgium, 2025
- Maya 2, France, 2025
- Meteors, France, 2025
- Mira, Denmark, 2025
- Miss Moxy, Netherlands, Belgium, 2025
- Momo, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, 2025
- Mortimers, The, Spain, 2025
- My Life in Versailles –The Movie, France, Luxembourg, 2025
- Ninja Motherf*cking Destruction, Germany, 2025
- North, Norway, 2025
- Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake, Spain, France, Belgium, Chile, Switzerland, 2025
- Only on Earth, Denmark, Spain, 2025
- Orphan, Hungary, Great Britain, 2025
- Our Wildest Days, Greece, France, Belgium, Germany, 2025
- Papa Bear, Russia, 2025
- Paternal Leave, Germany, Italy, 2025
- Pets on a Train, France, 2025
- Pixie. The New Beginning, Poland, Czech Republic, 2025
- Prank, Germany, Switzerland, 2025
- Pretty Young Love, Denmark, 2025
- Promised Sky, France, Tunisia, Quatar, 2025
- Pumuckl and the Big Misunderstanding, Germany, 2025
- Punching the World, Germany, 2025
- Pupil, The, Netherlands, Belgium, 2025
- Quest, The, Hungary, 2025
- Rainbow’s Tale, Czech Republic, Germany, 2025
- Rashid, the Boy from Sinjar, Belgium, France, 2025
- Ready or Not, Ireland, 2025
- Retreat, Great Britain, 2025
- Romeria, Spain, Germany, 2025
- Rufus – The Sea Serpent Who Could Not swim, Norway, Belgium, 2025
- Sandbag Dam, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, 2025
- School of Magical Animals 4, The, Germany, 2025
- Second Diary of Paulina P., The, Croatia, 2025
- Secret Delivery, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia , 2025
- Siblings, Italy, 2025
- Skiff, Belgium, Netherlands, 2025
- Slackers, Germany, 2025
- Sleepless City, Spain, 2025
- Small Dogs Bark Loud, Norway, 2025
- Soft Leaves, Belgium, 2025
- Songbirds' Secret, The, France, 2025
- Spiked, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, 2025
- Spiked aka Tally Ho!, Luxembourg, Great Britain, France, Belgium, 2025
- Stitch Head, Germany, Luxembourg, 2025
- Strange River, Spain, Germany, 2025
- Sugar Candy, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025
- Summer Beats, France, 2025
- Summer Book, The, Finland. USA, Great Britain, 2025
- Summer Camp, France, Switzerland, 2025
- Summer in Summerby, A, Germany, 2025
- Sunu Gaal, our Cayuco, Spain, 2025
- Super Furball and the Lying Squirrel, Finland, 2025
- Sweetheart, Italy, 2025
- Tafiti – Across the Desert, Germany, 2025
- Tales From the Magic Garden, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, France, 2025
- Terra Vil, Italy, Portugal, 2025
- Têtes Brûlées, Belgium, 2025
- Thanks for Nothing, Germany, 2025
- They Call Me Danka, Lithuania, 2025
- Three Investigators, The – Carpathian Dog, Germany, 2025
- Tomorrow I'll Be Brave, Germany, 2025
- Treasure of Barracuda, The, Spain, 2025
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Elephant, Netherlands, 2025
- Ugly Stepsister, The, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, 2025
- Unicorns, Italy, 2025
- Vlam, Netherlands, 2025
- Wheelie, Netherlands, 2025
- Whispers in the Woods, France, 2025
- Wild Foxes, Belgium, France, 2025
- Woodwalkers 2, Germany, Austria, Belgium, 2025
- Woozle and Pip: Adventure in the Magic Garden, Netherlands, 2025
Allah Is Not Obliged
English title: Allah Is Not Obliged
Original title: Allah n’est pas obligé
German title: Allah Is Not Obliged *
Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Canada, 2025
Director: Najjar, Zaven
Production company: Special Touch Studios, Creative Touch Studios, Paul Thiltges Distribution, Need Production, Lunamine and Yzanakio
Co-producers: Red Sea Film Festival Foundation, Pictanovo, Canal+ Afrique, Proximus, Société Radio-Canada, Gkids, RTBF
Length: 87 min.
Film genre: Animation
Synopsis:
Birahima, a young Guinean orphan around ten years old, must leave his village and try to cross the border to find an aunt who is said to be living in Liberia. The boy follows Yacouba, a smooth-talking wanderer who poses as his guide. But along the way, an encounter with child soldiers turns Birahima’s fate upside down. An unwilling recruit, what awaits him on the path of war?
Marketing strategies:
Adapted from a book of the same title by Ahmadou Kourouma.
Festivals:
AnnecyIFF 2025, Rio de Janeiro IFF 2025, Tokyo IFF 2025, Anima IFF Brussels 2026 (awarded), Fribourg IFF 2026, Cartoon Movie Bordeaux 2026 (awarded)
World sales address/es:
MK2 (FR)
Sold to:
Bac (F)