Known for Directing
Jean-François Laguionie (born October 10, 1939 in Besançon) is a French animator, film director and producer of animation. Laguionie was originally interested in theatre but his encounter with Paul Grimault gave him the opportunity to learn the techniques of animated film. Though they were very close to each other, Paul Grimault and Jean-François Laguionie rarely worked together (though Grimault produced Laguionie's first three shorts). Jean-François Laguionie then directed several short films, climaxing with the now famous La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame (Rowing across the Atlantic) (1978), which won the César Award for best short animated film in 1979. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born
October 4, 1939 (age 87)
Birthplace
Besançon, France
Filmography
118 films, 15 shows


A Boat in the Garden
2025 · 1h 15m
country: France
I can tell you about my father's voyage on his boat, because I was with him all the time. It was a rather strange voyage, with no ocean or sea crossing, not even a lock to pass through... The boat stayed at home and so did my father. But that does not mean there was no adventure...


The Prince’s Voyage
2019 · 1h 15m
country: France
The philosophical tale revolves around an elderly monkey prince who wakes up injured and disoriented in an environment he does not recognise. He navigates this new urban world with the support of a young monkey called Tom.


Louise by the Shore
2016 · 1h 15m
country: Canada
On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in the town, abandoned by everyone. As the weather turns for the worse and with no one to keep her company, louise must rely on her past to help her survive the present.


The Painting
2011 · 1h 20m
country: Belgium
Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.


Black Mor's Island
2004 · 1h 25m
country: France
Kid, a 15-year-old hard laborer, steals a map that promises to reveal the location of the notorious pirate Black Mor's treasure. Together with his crew -- MacGregor, Beanpole, Taka and Jim the monkey -- Kid procures a vessel and sets out to sea.


A Monkey's Tale
1999 · 1h 20m
country: Hungary
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…


Gwen and the Book of Sand
1985 · 1h 7m
country: France
Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.


De l'autre côté de l'image
1984 · 1h 36m
country: France


Rowing Across the Atlantic
1978 · 20m
country: France
Newlyweds, Adelaide and Jonathan leave New York in 1907 in a boat and row, ignorant of world events, to Europe. The years pass and many things are changing them, love is gradually degrading to hatred, then indifference. Old age is almost here, and with it, in a last swim, a last embrace, husband and wife end up “alone at last.” The boat adrift, will be discovered on the shores of Europe in the year 1957


The Mask of the Devil
1976 · 12m
country: France
One night, an old lady flees the carnival and takes refuge in the mountains. At midnight, the devil knocks on his door and offers him a very special domino game.


The Actor
1974 · 6m
country: France
In his dressing room, a young actor is making up as an old man. But behind the young man’s mask, what is his real face like ?


Potr' and the Girl of Water
1974 · 12m
country: France
Popular tale. Through love and awkwardness, a fisherman and a mermaid try to bury their differences…
Hélène or the misunderstanding
Hélène or the misunderstanding
1971
country: France


Private Beach
1970
country: France
A moralist and surrealist fable in which a group of aristocrats have sole access to a private beach in the midst of Paris, where they enact strange games and stylized gestures.


A Random Bomb
1969 · 8m
country: France
A stranger enters a town that has been evacuated because of an unexploded bomb. Meanwhile the inhabitants are watching through telescopes and are getting restless at the stranger’s antics.


Noah's Ark
1967 · 11m
country: France
In the ark, which has been perched for millennia on a snowy mountain top, an old hermit waits for a new flood. A scientific expedition approaches, just when the rain begins to fall.


The Young Lady and the Cellist
1965 · 9m
country: France
A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.