Does Zarafa end with hope?

Yes, very. More hopeful than 90% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Zarafa easy watching?

Yes. More comforting than 88% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Zarafa

Name: Zarafa
Genre: Family, Animation
Released: 2012
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Max Renaudin, Simon Abkarian, Vernon Dobtcheff, Roger Dumas, Ronit Elkabetz

Directed by Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie

Produced by France 3 Cinéma, Prima Linéa Productions

201278 min6.9 / 10

A hand-drawn animated adventure about an orphaned boy and giraffe bonding across a sweeping 19th-century landscape, balancing warmth and wonder with the genuine perils of their journey.

Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.

Clusters

Underdog Sports Stories Underdog Team Victories Underdog Comeback Stories Isolation And Loneliness Animal Movies

Genres

Family Animation

Keywords

Giraffe Sudan Based On True Story Orphan 19th Century

Questions people ask

Does Zarafa end with hope? Yes, very. More hopeful than 90% of films.
Is Zarafa easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 88% of films.
Is Zarafa scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.
Is Zarafa violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Is Zarafa sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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