Adult Program: Five Minutes To Sea

Runtime: 72 min.
Age: 16+

Три сестры
Three Sisters

Year: 2019
Country: Russia
Director: Svetlana Andrianova
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 8 min.
Soyuzmultfilm Studio Production.

Once upon a time three sisters lived, and it happened that they fell in love with one sailor.
Based on a Montenegrin legend.

Петер-баас
Peter-baas

Year: 2019
Country: Russia
Director: Anastasia Zhakulina
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 7 min.
Soyuzmultfilm Studio Production.

The film tells about Peter the Great studying shipbuilding and turning Russia into maritime power after defeating the Swedes in the Battle of Gangut.

Одинокий монстр выходит к людям
Lonely Monster Goes Out

Year: 2019
Country: Russia
Director: Ivan Maximov
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 7 min.
Yupiter-XXI Company Production.

A Monster suffers from boredom and loneliness, by chance he gets out of his cave and after walking through the maze arrives somewhere. There are only silly white bunnies. He is frustrated and comes back down. Finds another way, and sees some mad chickens with trunks.

Восточный рабочий
Ostarbeiter

Year: 2018
Country: Russia
Director: Polina Kampioni
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 5 min.
Film produced in association with the Memorial NGO.

Ost means East in German. Literally, Ostarbeiter is an Eastern worker. In 1942-1943 millions of young people were gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe and departed to the Nazi Germany to perform forced labor. 50 years after that, they decide to tell their stories.

Пять минут до моря
Five Minutes To Sea

Year: 2018
Country: Russia
Director: Natalya Mirzoyan
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 7 min.
Peterburg Studio Production.

Mom tells her daughter to have a five minute break before she’s allowed to swim again. Those five minutes seem like eternity to the little girl. She’s trying to entertain herself by watching other beach goers who spend their own five minutes in different ways. However, everyone is waiting for their own «swim»...

Awards & Festivals:

Krok International Animated Film Festival – Special Prize
Luchezarniy Angel International Charity Film Festival – Best Animated Film
Nika Award nomination – Best Animated Film

Ручной
Tamed

Year: 2018
Country: Russia
Director: Ekaterina Mikheeva
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 4 min.
HSE Art and Design School Production.

Story about a man who lives with a Big Yellow Hand, that constantly takes care of him and never lets him go. One day the hero falls in love.

Товарищ со звезд
Comrade From The Stars

Year: 2018
Country: Russia
Director: Andrey Sokolov
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 16 min.
Gorky Cinema Studio Production.

In 1908, in the environs of Podkamennaya Tunguska, Siberia, an interstellar space ship crashes. Later this event will be called the Tungus meteorite.
10 years later, the Red Army, which entered Irkutsk, discovers a strange prisoner in a local penitentiary. They ordered a young officer to escort a strange creature to Moscow to investigate his appearance. So begins the long adventure of two completely different individuals.

Вечность
Eternity

Year: 2018
Country: Denmark, Russia
Director: Anastasia Melikhova
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 3 min.
Abstractions are transforming into something live, as result a new world is born.

Сапожки
Boots

Year: 2018
Country: Russia
Director: Elizaveta Skvortsova
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 3 min.
Film by the Barnaul Production Group.

Video for the song Sapogi created and performed by the director herself, Liza Skvortsova. 

Чик-Чирик
Tweet-Tweet

Year: 2018
Country: Russia
Director: Zhanna Bekmambetova
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 11 min.
Production by CGF Studio, BAZELEVS Studio. In association with M. Gorky Studio.

Our life is like walking a tightrope. At the moment we feel fear, we lose our balance. And vice versa, when we are happy, going through life is easy. You can even fly!

Awards & Festivals:

Shanghai International Film Festival – Golden Goblet Award (Best Animated Shor Film)
Cartoons on the Bay – Pulcinella Award
Busan International Short Film Festival – Festival Prize, Special Jury Mention
Tokyo Anime Award Festival– Tokyo Metropolitan Governor Prize (Short Film Category)
Lanzarote International Film Festival – Special Mention
Athens Animfest – 3rd Vrilissia Award, Music Award
Giffoni Film Festival – Best Short Film (Generator +18)
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia – Best Short Film (CG Animation Compeition)
Luchezarniy Angel International Charity Film Festival – participation
Aye Aye International Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine – participation 
Cairo International Film Festival – participation 
Cleveland International Film Festival – participation 
Corti a Ponte International Film Festival – Best Film (Slowness Section)
Golden Kuker International Animation Film Festival – participation

REKARUSEL
REKARUSEL

Year: 2019
Country: Russia
Director: STFNV, Kitos_04, Mopka, Verymaryland, Killkenny, Sergei Ryzhov, Mankysee, Rikki Lorie, Dizza36, Blaberus, Kanevsky, Lilipil, Ape_one, КК, Grino, xgabberx, Kraseva, fl33wrtp, Senia Juchkov, Sakvo, Antonia Lev
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 1 min.
VESYOLAYA KARUSEL (Happy Merry-Go-Round) is a long-running Soviet and Russian animated anthology series created by Anatoly Petrov and Galina Barinova for Soyuzmultfilm in 1969. Every episode was made by a different author. Different story. Different style. The only constant thing through the ages was its opening. The REKARUSEL project revisits the original opening. 21 artists. 21 frames. 20,95 fps. 180 bpm.