Happy End / Happy End
Jan Saska
Czech Republic / 2016 / 5' 43''Screenings
Europa Cinema, 11:00 h
Tuškanac Cinema, 15:30 h
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 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 4Best Animation School - FAMU