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World Festival of Animated Film /
short and feature edition 5 to 10 June 2017
World Festival of Animated Film / short and feature edition 5 to 10 June 2017
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Happy End / Happy End


Jan Saska

Czech Republic / 2016 / 5' 43''



Screenings


Tuesday, 06. 06.,
Europa Cinema, 11:00 h
Friday, 09. 06.,
Tuškanac Cinema, 15:30 h
Friday, 09. 06.,
Tuškanac Cinema, 17:30 h


Synopsis


A black comedy about death with a happy ending. A splendid chain of unlikely encounters. Hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy, and a corpse.

Jan Saska


Jan Saska is a Czech animation director and comics author. After premiering his FAMU graduation film Happy End, a black comedy about death, at la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes in 2016 , it has been screened  at numerous film festivals worldwide, received more than twenty-five awards and was shortlisted for the 2017 Oscars. Jan’s latest project – Hurikán – is a short comedy based on Jan’s original comic character of the same name. Together with his longtime collaborators – Marek Pokorný and Vojtěch Kiss – Jan is part of True Lovers, an artistic group dedicated to comics and animation.

 

Director

Jan Saska


Production

FAMU – Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague


Screenplay

Jan Saska


Storyboard

Jan Saska


Sound

Jiří Gráf


Music

Martin Klusák, Jiří Saska


Editing

Jan Saska


Animation

Jan Saska


categories

Student films competition 4
Best Animation School - FAMU