Hurikán

Hurikán
Bosnia Herzegovina Czech Republic France Slovakia
2024
Animation
13 min.

Director | Jan Saska
Script | Jan Saska, Václav Hašek
Editing | Jan Saska
Animators | Marek Pokorny, Michaela Večerkova, Jan Saska, Camille Chao, Hugo de Faucompret, David Štumpf, Jean-Christophe Lie, Félicia Gillibert, Delphine Grelet
Sound designer | Jiří Graf
Composer | Jiří Graf
Producers | Kamila Dohnalová, Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasová, Antoine Liétout, Ivan Zuber, Juraj Krasnohorský, Mladen Đukić
Production company | Last Films

Hurikán rushes out to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.

 

About the director:

Jan Saska is a Czech animation director and comics author. After premiering at la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes in 2016 his FAMU graduation film Happy End, a black comedy about death, has been screened on 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.