Synopsis

Choban's sheep dog, Laika, has been kidnapped and launched into space. As he searches for her, he experiences the rise and fall of his singing career in an underground city. In the meantime, having met in space Moira, an old woman who weaves destiny and bends space and time, Laika turns into an anthropomorphic being that longs to return to its master...

Matija Pisačić

Matija Pisačić (1975) was born in Zagreb. He received his high school diploma from the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb. He studied philosophy and religious studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus (FFDI). He is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts (ULUPUH) and the Croatian Freelance Artists Association (HZSU). He has been active since 1995, creating a series of illustrations and comics, and has directed a number of animated films screened in competition programme of Animafest Zagreb: Doctor Zodiac’s Fantastic Odyssey (2008), Choban (2014), Murder in the Cathedral (2020). In 2011, he co-founded Anima artistic organisation with Krešimir Zimonić and started to produce creative animated films.