Synopsis

Here is a new take on the famous fairy tale first told by Aesop and then Jean de la Fontaine. Ket, a guitar playing cricket, leads a band to entertain the carefree bugs. Nearby lives Antoinette, heiress of the anthill where music is forbidden and only discipline and hard work are allowed. By accident they meet and affection grows between them. The ant girl tries to warn the crickets of the upcoming winter, to no avail.  When Antheodor, an over-ambitious ant, kidnaps Antoinette, it’s Ket and his friends who come to her rescue.

Luka Rukavina 

Luka Rukavina graduated dramaturgy at the Academy of dramatic Arts in Zagreb and the film and TV direction programme at The FAMU in Prague. He worked as a screenwriter and creative producer of different TV formats and wrote articles and film reviews, as well as several stage plays. As a director he signed over 100 short documentary forms for the children and youth TV programs. He directed more than twenty dubbings of major animated movies in Croatia. He gaind expirience in live action short films Brija (2012) and Ne pričamo o Vama nego o djeci (2015), that were both well received. Cricket & Antoinettte is his first animated feature, which he also co-wrote with Rona Žulj.