Carole Laganière (1959 - February 6, 2023) was a Canadian film director from Quebec.

[1] Born and raised in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve quarter of Montreal,[2] she studied film at the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion in Belgium.

[1] She became best known for East End Kids (Vues de l'est) and its sequel East End Forever (L'Est pour toujours), in which she profiled the hopes and dreams of young kids growing up in the same Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood where she had been raised.

[4] Her other noteworthy films included The Fiancée of Life (La fiancée de la vie), a film about children coping with the deaths of parents which won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary award at the 2002 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[5] and Absences, about her own mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease and other people coping with the unresolved absence of family connections from their lives.

[7] Her final film, Break Free (Fuir), about women escaping domestic violence, premiered at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in 2022.