Directing
Sébastien Laudenbach
Born October 12, 1973 · Arras, France (age 52)
Sébastien Laudenbach is a french illustrator and director of animated films. He also teaches at the EnsAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) since 2001. The Girl Without Hands (2016) is his first feature film.
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Dec 16, 2026
Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story · 2026Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story
2026
MovieAnimationMusic
Andalusia, Spain, 1840. After three years of wandering, Salva, who works as an assistant to a blind knife sharpener, returns to Seville, his hometown, where he meets Carmen, a gypsy woman with a captivating voice.
Chicken for Linda! · 2023Chicken for Linda!
★ 6.82023
MovieAnimationComedy
Single mother Paulette decides to make up for her mistake by cooking a chicken with peppers for her daughter—only she can't cook and shopkeepers are on strike.
The Girl Without Hands · 2016The Girl Without Hands
★ 7.02016
MovieAnimationFantasy
A poor miller gets tricked by the Devil and accidentally sells his daughter for a bit of gold. But Satan can't take her because she's too pure and has wept on her hands. So Satan orders the miller to cut her hands off. It's the beginning of the young girl's journey towards freedom.
Vasco · 2010Vasco
★ 6.02010
MovieAnimationDrama
You have gone, Vasco, you wanted to go far away. But we kept you back, with concrete and kisses, and you tasted the blood of whales. But it was not enough, you wanted to go further, towards the horizon that fascinated you so much. But how far will you go, Vasco?
Daphné or the Lovely Specimen · 2015Daphné or the Lovely Specimen
★ 6.92015
MovieDocumentaryAnimation
As any pretty plant, Daphne buds, opens, fills with fragrance and loses leaves. But is never allowed pick. Combining animation and continuous shooting, Daphne or the lovely specimen is a documentary painting the portrait of an unchaste and sensitive woman who speaks to us first about her body then about her heart. Without waffle.
Journal · 1998Journal
★ 7.01998
MovieAnimationRomance
The writer's intimate diary from October '96 to March '97, to the rhythm of animated sequences from day to day, according to events, sensations, memories, moods...
Yamabuki · 2022Yamabuki
★ 5.22022
MovieDrama
A story of finding a place to root yourself when life’s obstacles have dispirited you. Chang-su, a former equestrian athlete for the South Korean national team, was forced to give up on his dream early. He finds himself working at a quarry in the rural town of Minawa in western Japan, where he lives with Minami and her infant daughter. Yamabuki, a teenage girl, begins to stage silent protests that blossom into community action, much to the dismay of her policeman father. The quiet surface of this rural town is gradually peeled off to reveal frustration and loneliness that, once given a voice, begin to connect people.
La Sapienza · 2014La Sapienza
★ 6.02014
MovieDrama
The story is one of an architect that has lost his inspiration and goes looking for those motivations that pushed him as a youngster to take up the profession. Inspiring him was the baroque movement and all of its artifices: the Guarini in Turin and the Borromini in Rome. The film’s central story ends up being the love story that develops between architecture, artistic inspiration and feelings.
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