VIVA CARMEN! | CARMEN, L’OISEAU REBELLE

FRANCE | 2026 | COLOR | DCP | 90’ | FRENCH

In the sun-drenched alleyways of Sevilla, a rebellious gang of street kids decides to take matters into their own hands to save Carmen —a free-spirited and passionate woman— from the tragic fate destiny has in store for her. Sébastien Laudenbach reinvents Georges Bizet’s world-famous opera, reworking its legendary motifs with a contemporary perspective and transforming the classic drama into a colorful musical adventure. A visual feast of warm rhythms and disarming innocence, his “Carmen” deconstructs the dark finale of the original to deliver a luminous fairy tale about friendship, solidarity and the priceless right to freedom. Thodoris Karamanolis

DIRECTOR: Sébastien Laudenbach
SCREENWRITERS: Santiago Otheguy, Sébastien Laudenbach
ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ: Amine Bouhafa, Isabelle Laudenbach
EDITOR: Catherine Aladenise
VOICES: Camélia Jordana, Milo Machado-Graner, Soumaye Bocoum, Carl Malapa, Gaëtan Dupont, Évan Paturel, Paul Minthe, Olga Milshtein, Nadège Beausson Diagne, Maxime Bailleul, Félix Kysyl, Benjamin Cannone, Gaëtan Peau, Suzanne Levy-Aris

SÉBASTIEN LAUDENBACH

Director, animator and illustrator, born in France in 1973. Since 2001, he teaches at the National School of Decorative Arts (EnsAD), in Paris. His first feature film, the animation “The Girl Without Hands” (2016), won the Jury Prize at the Annecy Film Festival, while “Chicken for Linda” won the Cesar for Best Animation.

FILMOGRAPHY
2026 Viva Carmen!
2023 Chicken for Linda
2016 The Girl Without Hands