Director Biography Pierre-Luc Granjon

Pierre-Luc Granjon studied at the Applied Art School of Lyon. In 1998, he began his career in animaDon in the studio Folimage and made his first two stopmoDon films: A Li_le Adventure (PeDte Escapade, 2001) and The Other Kid’s Castle (Le Château des Autres, 2003). Following, he directed two cutout paper films, The Child With No Mouth (L’enfant Sans Bouche, 2004, Corridor Studios), and The White Wolf (Le Loup Blanc, 2006, Sacrebleu ProducDons), which was awarded at fesDvals worldwide. With Antoine Lanciaux, Pierre-Luc Granjon has also directed and wri_en four 26-minutes puppet films: The four Seasons of Leon (Folimage). He then made The Big Beast (La Grosse Bête, 2013, Les Décadrés ProducDon), Je ne fais que passer (around the Chauvet’s Cave, a film made in plaster) and The Dog (Le Chien, made on Alexeief and Parker’s pinscreen, 2018). He was also first assistant director on The Tower (Wardi, feature film in puppet and 2D by Mats Grodud) made in the studio Foliascope and released in 2019. The Inventor, by Jim Capobianco, is his first feature film as co-director.
His short movie called The Night Boots/Les Bo_es de la Nuit (pinscreen) is produced by Am
Stram Gram ProducDon.

FILM IN COMPETITION 2026 – Les bottes de la nuit

While his parents are entertaining friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night into the undergrowth, rubber boots on his feet. There, a li_le creature, curious and solitary, takes him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal inhabitants that live there.