Allah is Not Obliged

When ten-year-old Birahima’s mother dies, he leaves his native village in Guinea, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced into military service. Birahima becomes a child-soldier. Fighting in a chaotic civil war alongside many other boys, Birahima sees death, torture, dismemberment and madness but somehow manages to retain his own sanity.

• Karine WinczuraScreenplay
• Zaven NajjarDirector
• Zaven NajjarScreenplay
• Thibault Kienz AgyemanOriginal Music Composer

• Chris Aboubacar Hanta Traoré / SK 07Birahima (voice)
• Thomas NgijolYacouba (voice)
• Marc Zinga(voice)
• Annabelle Lengronne(voice)