Laika - Amadou

Discover a place where time is no longer in charge. Hang your haste on a hook, store your worries for tomorrow. Open the gates of your ears and enter a world, from long ago, and yet of now. Hear the rhythm and the melody of old and new stories. People have always told each other stories: to understand the world, not to forget, and to pass on life lessons. Aminata Demba follows in the footsteps of the West African storytellers, the griots. She slips into the skin of a child with a head full of small and big questions. Her search for answers leads to an adventure in which she also discovers herself. Go on a journey to the depths of time. A trip full of wonderful encounters: a hippo with stress and an elephant with an itch, hospitable aunts, a goat in love, an unreliable crow… Amadou is a musical trip, with nothing in his pocket but a handful of courage and zest for life. A eulogy to the art of storytelling and the mesmerizing music that goes with it. This narrative is inspired by the work of the Malian author Amadou Hampâté Bâ, who collected and wrote down the mythical, oral stories from the collective memory of the Peul people. Scene by scene For everyone from 8 years old