Joann Sfar

The Rabbi's Cat

The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.

Release Date2011-05-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Jew from the trunk (voice)

Vote Count179

Little Vampire

Little Vampire lives in a haunted house with a merry group of monsters, but he is bored stiff! One night, he secretly sneaks out of the manor along with his trusted bulldog, Phantomato, on a quest to find some new friends.

Release Date2020-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Marguerite

Vote Count40

Joann Sfar (drawings)

Documentary about Joann Sfar (born August 28, 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator and film director. He is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. His main influences are Fred and André Franquin as well as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt and John Buscema. From 2009 to 2010, Sfar wrote and directed Gainsbourg: Une Vie Heroique, a biopic of the illustrious French songwriter and singer, of whom Sfar is a self-confessed fanatic. The film, which draws substantially on Sfar's abilities as a comic book artist through its extensive use of fantasy artwork, animation and puppetry, was released in 2010 to general critical acclaim.

Release Date2010-01-01

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count5

People of the Graphic Novel

"People of the Graphic Novel" is a playful introduction to the history of an art form: from the first "funny pages" to seminal artists including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman.

Release Date2012-07-31

Charactersd Himself

Hawaii, l'âme du ukulélé

A passionate ukulele player, cartoonist Joann Sfar ("The Rabbi's Cat") flies to Hawaii to explore the history of the little instrument, as well as the culture that surrounds it. For the pocket guitar, imported in 1879 by the Portuguese from Madeira who had come to harvest sugar cane, is the vector of a philosophy specific to the archipelago: the spirit of "Aloha", which condenses hospitality, joy, love and respect. With brushes in hand, Joann Sfar set out in search of the ideal instrument, meeting craftsmen, musicians, dancers and guardians of Hawaiian culture.

Release Date2020-02-21

Charactersd Himself

Télématin

Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.

Release Date1985-01-10

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Beau geste

Release Date2023-01-22

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Salut les Terriens !

Release Date2006-11-04

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

C ce soir, le débat

Release Date2021-01-25

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

En société

Release Date2023-09-17

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgusted critics but fascinated the public. Movies in which horror was shown in offensive colors: dreadful stories, told without prejudices, that offered fear, blood, sex and stunning performances.

Release Date2017-08-06

Charactersd Self - Comic Author

Vote Count4

Behind the Superhero Mask

Documentary that examines the popularity of super-hero comic books.

Release Date2013-04-17

Charactersd Self

Little Vampire

Release Date2004-01-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

Release Date2010-01-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count343

The Prophet

Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.

Release Date2014-09-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobCo-Director

Vote Count130

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...

Release Date2015-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count134

Aya of Yop City

While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. Their ambition is to follow Plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! But big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant, and the baby’s father is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country.

Release Date2013-07-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count51

Mr. Crocodile

Follow the adventures of its toothy, loveable protagonist reptile and best friend Daisy, as he cheerfully navigates life with boundless enthusiasm and comical misunderstandings due to his instinctive crocodile logic.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

La Caverne

Release Date2016-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Merlin against Santa Claus

Release Date2003-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Concept

Vote Count1

Le Chat du rabbin

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector