Festivals
Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand - 2020
Sundance Film Festival - 2020
Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal - 2019
The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to absurd events, because... shit happens all the time.
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David Stumpf
Direction & Screenplay
David Štumpf (1991, Slovakia) finished his BA studies at VŠMU in Bratislava with the film Cowboyland that has been selected for festivals in Annecy, Stuttgart or Hiroshima and it has won several awards at home and internationally. David is now living in Prague where he is finishing his MA degree at FAMU with the film SH_T Happens. He also works as a freelance director and animator.

Michaela Mihalyi
Direction & Screenplay
Michaela Mihályi (1991, Slovakia) is currently studying animation at FAMU in Prague, where she lives as well. She previously studied animation at VŠMU in Bratislava. She has an interest in telling stories using various techniques, from hand-drawn, cut-out to puppet animation.
Besides school work, she works as a freelance animation director and illustrator. She has a dog called Ela and loves beer and coffee equally.
Original Title
SH_T Happens
Duration
13 MIN
Language
- without dialogue
Subtitles
French
Country
France, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Direction
David Stumpf, Michaela Mihalyi
Animation
David Stumpf
Music
Olivier De Palma
Editing
Katarina Pavelkova
Sound designer
Damien Perrollaz, Francesco Porcellana
Screenplay
Michaela Mihalyi, David Stumpf