---
name: "Maïlys Vallade"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mailys-vallade"
fi1m_id: "mailys-vallade"
tmdb_id: 2694520
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T04:03:22.649770+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Maïlys Vallade

## Identity

Maïlys Vallade

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mailys-vallade
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mailys-vallade
- **TMDB ID:** 2694520
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2694520

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2694520

## Biography

Maïlys Vallade is a French animation director and screenwriter. She studied graphic arts at EPSAA in Paris and animation film direction at Gobelins, where she made several award-winning student shorts, including *The Lighthouse Keeper* (2009).

Vallade has worked on numerous animated features since 2010, contributing as a storyboard artist, animator and in visual development on titles such as *Ernest & Célestine* (2012), *The Little Prince* (2015), *Long Way North* (2015), *The Swallows of Kabul* (2019), *I Lost My Body* (2019) and *Calamity* (2020). Her debut feature, co-directed and co-written with Liane-Cho Han, is the 2025 adaptation *Little Amélie or the Character of Rain*, based on Amélie Nothomb’s novel. The film premiered at Cannes and received nominations including for the Camera d’Or.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, mailysvallade.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Little Amélie or the Character of Rain* (2025), Fi1m 80, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/little-amelie-or-the-character-of-rain.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Little Amélie or the Character of Rain* (2025), Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/little-amelie-or-the-character-of-rain.md)
- *Long Way North* (2015), Animation
- *The Lighthouse Keeper* (2009), Director
- *Garuda* (2008), Director

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