Zarafa

Synopsis

This French/Belgian film relates the early 19th-century story of how Zarafa, the first giraffe ever to be kept in a French zoo, came to live there with the assistance of a ten-year-old Sudanese boy and a Bedouin who rescues the boy from slavery. This film takes a tougher and more historically accurate look at colonialism and slavery than you may be accustomed to seeing in an animated work.

Listed at AFS

Archived on the AFS site between Sun, Aug 18 2019 and Fri, Oct 17 2025, across 6 captures. These dates are inferred from Wayback Machine captures and may not be accurate.