Allah is not obliged is the adaptation of the eponymous novel of Ahmadou Kourouma published 25 years ago to the editions of the Seuil and having received the Renaudot prize the same year. Nearly a quarter of a century later, while the subject of child soldiers seems to occupy less Western chiefdoms like public opinion, Zaven Najjar puts the fate of these young children caught in the midst of the gangs of civil wars in West Africa of the 1980s/90s on the forefront. From Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire, young Birahima will have to survive, slipping irreparably towards arms.
Interview with Zaven Najjar
Behind these drawings, with a chattoyant colours, we find the unique style of Zaven Najjar, who signed the artistic direction of The Siren by Sepideh Farsi, Iranian director with whom we exchanged on the Iran-Iraq war in 2023 (including Put your soul on your hand and walk had shaken the Cannes festival). As with his previous film, one finds an approach at the crossroads of documentary and fiction, Zaven having collected many testimonies from premises which he moreover involved on the musical part of the film. Also carried by a humour peculiar to the well tempered character of Birahima accompanied by his not very conventional marabout uncle, AIlah is not obliged recalls that « The child soldier is the most famous character of the late XXe century ».
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