
Directing
Sébastien Laudenbach
Born 1973-10-12 · Arras, France
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.
Acting credits
7.0The 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...
Journal
1998
No synopsis available yet.
L'isle
2006
6.0The 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.
La Sapienza
2014
NRAn indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in the digital era. Featuring insights and anecdotes by hand-drawn animation artists from around the world.
Hand-Drawn: Documentary
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Behind the camera
NRAndalusia, 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.
Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story
2026
NRAndalusia, 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.
Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story
2026
6.8Single 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.
Chicken for Linda!
2023
6.8Single 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.
Chicken for Linda!
2023
7.0Clémence is confined to her bed. Her future calls out to her, showing her places, people, and glimpses of other lives. But how can this future be realized if she remains bedridden? She must sift through her past and revisit a childhood that was not so happy after all, a time when danger could arise at any moment.
XI. La Force
2013
7.0Clémence is confined to her bed. Her future calls out to her, showing her places, people, and glimpses of other lives. But how can this future be realized if she remains bedridden? She must sift through her past and revisit a childhood that was not so happy after all, a time when danger could arise at any moment.
XI. La Force
2013
6.0You 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?
Vasco
2010
6.0You 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?
Vasco
2010
7.0The 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...
Journal
1998
7.0The 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...
Journal
1998
6.9As 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.
Daphné or the Lovely Specimen
2015
6.9As 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.
Daphné or the Lovely Specimen
2015
7.0A 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.
The Girl Without Hands
2016
7.0A 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.
The Girl Without Hands
2016
No synopsis available yet.
Les Yeux du Renard
2012
No synopsis available yet.
Les Yeux du Renard
2012
6.5An epileptic director trying to make a film about the life of famed Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn discovers that her real-life subject bears little resemblance to the star she idolized.
Simple Women
2019
NRSchool is over. Benjamin is five years old and goes on vacation to the sea with his mother and 12-year-old sister. "A comme Azur" is the chronicle of this summer which unfolds all the letters of the alphabet.
A comme Azur
2020
NRSchool is over. Benjamin is five years old and goes on vacation to the sea with his mother and 12-year-old sister. "A comme Azur" is the chronicle of this summer which unfolds all the letters of the alphabet.
A comme Azur
2020
NRArchitect Charles Garnier's widow recounts her intimate past deep in the recesses of the velvet and gold Palais Garnier.
Vibrato
2017
NRArchitect Charles Garnier's widow recounts her intimate past deep in the recesses of the velvet and gold Palais Garnier.
Vibrato
2017
6.0Oana is working. I am watching her. Tonight, the very last file will be closed. She does not want to translate the words of others anymore. She thinks that tomorrow she will start writing her own words. But she will not, I know that…
Regarder Oana
2009
6.0Oana is working. I am watching her. Tonight, the very last file will be closed. She does not want to translate the words of others anymore. She thinks that tomorrow she will start writing her own words. But she will not, I know that…
Regarder Oana
2009
By Sébastien Laudenbach
A4
2019