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Original name: Slocum et Moi
English name: A Boat in the Garden
Year: 2024
Run time: 75 minutes
Language: French
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Luxembourg, France
Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Producers: Stephan Roelants, Camille Raulo, Jean-François Bigot
Cast: Elias Hauter, Grégory Gadebois, Coraly Zahonero de la Comédie Française, André Marcon, Mathilde Lamusse
Screenplay: Anik Le Ray et Jean-François Laguionie
Artistic Director: Pascal Gérard
Editor: Aurélien Antezac
Sound Designer: Philophon
Music Composer: Pascal Le Pennec
Animation Supervisor: Giles Rudziak
Composing: L’Incroyable Studio
Production Company: JPL Productions, Mélusine Productions
World Sales: Urban Sales
Born in 1939 in Besançon, France, Jean-François Laguionie developed a passion for drawing from an early age. After studying at the Arts Appliqués, he met Paul Grimault, who introduced him to animation and whose studio he shared for almost ten years. It was there that he conceived his first short films. Each time, they met with success at festivals, including the Palme d’Or for Short Films at the Cannes Film Festival for Rowing Across the Atlantic. In 1999, he directed The Castle of the Apes, a much more ambitious and mainstream film than the previous one. He went on to collaborate with Blue Spirit Productions and JPL films on his subsequent feature films.
1950’s, France, by the serene banks of the Marne River. François, a daydreaming child of boundless imagination, has his life changed when his father decides to start building a boat in the garden. Thus begins the family’s grand odyssey, a collective venture to construct a boat that would carry them away – somewhere between reality and reverie.
