During a hunting day in rural Spain, a father struggles to accept that his adult son is moving abroad, dealing with the feelings of being left alone.

Director Biography – José Prats
José Prats (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, Spain, 12/21/1988) is an award-winning Spanish film director, writer and illustrator. He studied Fine Arts and started his career as a visual development artist for Spanish, Mexican and Finnish animation studios. Between 2016-2021 he worked at the British Studio Aardman Animations, where he worked on the Oscar nominated “Robin Robin” and the Netflix production “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”.
In 2020 he directed Umbrellas, a 2D animation short film selected for Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, and nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the Spanish Academy Goya Awards. In 2022 he was granted a La Caixa Foundation Fellowship to study Directing Animation at the National Film and Television School in the UK. His graduation film “Adiós”, a stop-motion drama set in rural Spain, won the ANNIE Award for Best Student Film, was selected to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, San Sebastian International Film Festival and nominated for the BAFTA Awards in the Best British Animation category and winner of the ANNIE. José is currently developing “Barro”, a romantic and surreal drama in stop-motion, and “Gas”, a black comedy/drama in live-
action. After “Puto humo” (2022), “Adiós” is his third short film as a director.