Sébastien Laudenbach

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

Behind the camera

Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story poster
NR

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.

Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story

2026

Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story poster
NR

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.

Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story

2026

Chicken for Linda! poster
6.8

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.

Chicken for Linda!

2023

Chicken for Linda! poster
6.8

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.

Chicken for Linda!

2023

XI. La Force poster
7.0

Clémence 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

XI. La Force poster
7.0

Clémence 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

Vasco poster
6.0

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?

Vasco

2010

Vasco poster
6.0

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?

Vasco

2010

Journal poster
7.0

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...

Journal

1998

Journal poster
7.0

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...

Journal

1998

Daphné or the Lovely Specimen poster
6.9

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.

Daphné or the Lovely Specimen

2015

Daphné or the Lovely Specimen poster
6.9

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.

Daphné or the Lovely Specimen

2015

The Girl Without Hands poster
7.0

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.

The Girl Without Hands

2016

The Girl Without Hands poster
7.0

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.

The Girl Without Hands

2016

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Yeux du Renard

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Yeux du Renard

2012

Simple Women poster
6.5

An 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

A comme Azur poster
NR

School 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

A comme Azur poster
NR

School 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

Vibrato poster
NR

Architect Charles Garnier's widow recounts her intimate past deep in the recesses of the velvet and gold Palais Garnier.

Vibrato

2017

Vibrato poster
NR

Architect Charles Garnier's widow recounts her intimate past deep in the recesses of the velvet and gold Palais Garnier.

Vibrato

2017

Regarder Oana poster
6.0

Oana 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

Regarder Oana poster
6.0

Oana 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

No artwork available
NR

By Sébastien Laudenbach

A4

2019