Co-directed by Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie, who did the animation for THE TRIPLETS OF BELLVILLE and TARZAN, ZARAFA is a charming tale is sure to capture the hearts of kids of all ages. Under a baobab tree, a griot, or storyteller, shares the epic adventures of Maki, a 10-year old boy in Africa who befriends a giraffe and tries to stop her from being sent to Paris as a gift for King Charles X. Their voyage takes them through Alexandria and Marseille, aboard a hot air balloon and a pirate ship, and over mirage-filled deserts and the snow-capped Alps.

Rémi Bezançon studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) in Paris and the École du Louvre. In 2005 he released his first feature film Ma vie en l'air before meeting with success in 2008 with The First Day of the Rest of Your Life. In 2011, he directed Un heureux événement, adapted from the novel by Eliette Abécassis, with Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï and Josiane Balasko. The soundtrack, like the previous films, is by Sinclair. Jean-Christophe Lie was born in France in 1970, he studied at the art school École des Beaux-arts in Toulouse and at the film school CFT des Gobelins in Paris and subsequently worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios in Montreuil. In 2008 he made his first short animation film, THE MAN IN THE BLUE GORDINI, which screened in Cannes, was nominated for a César and won two awards at the animation film festival in Annecy.

Rémi Bezançon studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) in Paris and the École du Louvre. In 2005 he released his first feature film Ma vie en l'air before meeting with success in 2008 with The First Day of the Rest of Your Life. In 2011, he directed Un heureux événement, adapted from the novel by Eliette Abécassis, with Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï and Josiane Balasko. The soundtrack, like the previous films, is by Sinclair. Jean-Christophe Lie was born in France in 1970, he studied at the art school École des Beaux-arts in Toulouse and at the film school CFT des Gobelins in Paris and subsequently worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios in Montreuil. In 2008 he made his first short animation film, THE MAN IN THE BLUE GORDINI, which screened in Cannes, was nominated for a César and won two awards at the animation film festival in Annecy.