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The Little Cousteau

It isn’t easy to be a small boy in a snow-covered deserted city when all you want to do is to dive deep into the oceans with Jacques Cousteau. Sometimes even the wildest dreams may come true, especially if your companions on an adventure are a cunning ginger-haired cat and an octopus-shaped balloon. 

  • Czech Republic
  • 2013, 8 min
  • Director: Jakub Kouřil
  • Director of photography: Jakub Kouřil
  • Editor: Roman Tesáček
  • Screenplay: Jakub Kouřil
  • Producer: Bára Příkaská
  • Production: FAMU


Jakub Kouřil

Jakub Kouřil (1987) graduated from the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the Tomas Bata University in Zlin with major in Animation and Audiovison. After six months of internship at the prestigious ENSAD (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris, where he also focused on animation, he went on to the Film and TV School of Performing Arts in Prague, getting a master’s in animation. His fourth short film, M.O. (2012) is has been successfully screened at the Prague Short Films Festival. Little Costeau (Malý Costeau, 2012) was awarded the Magnesia Award at the annual Czech Lion film award ceremony.