Animation, directed by Michel Ocelot, France, 1998, 70 min

French with English subtitles 

Kirikou is born in a little village somewhere in West Africa that is being terrorized by an evil sorceress who has cast a spell of drought on the village’s sole spring. Determined to save his village and its residents, tiny Kirikou goes on a quest to defy the evil sorceress Karaba.