Gagarin 1994
A young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so ... until a couple start playing badminton nearby.
A young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so ... until a couple start playing badminton nearby.
The film based on the book by Eduard Uspensky "Crocodile Gena and his friends". Crocodile Gena works in a zoo - a crocodile. Every evening he returns home to his lonely apartment. Finally he tired of playing with himself in chess, and Gene decides to make friends. On the ads pasted around the city, responding animals and people. First comes a girl with a homeless puppy Gal, followed by the Cheburashka...
This animated short focuses on the lives of three eccentric people living on a farm in the Russian countryside. Told in a non-linear, stream of consciousness style, the film depicts the deceitful relationship between a master and his two servants. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2007.
Popular at the end of the Soviet Union and Russia's transformation to a new era was a sort of escapism into surreal animation like this one.
Southwestern Sahara. The North Hotel, where Karbofos is hiding. He waits impatiently for a phone call, gets furious at the conditions of the hotel (flies, an idle fan) and goes crazy from the heat, as a result of which he refreshes himself in the refrigerator, from where a dazed penguin runs out due to sweaty fumes.
A mysterious knock in an instant destroys the usual life that four lonely, calm people lead.
The goat and the ram ran away from the owner in search of a better life.
A musical film based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The story is about an arrogant but agile bread kid who managed to get around everyone except the treacherous Fox.
The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.
An eight-minute Russian animation directed by Andrey Svislotskiy of Pilot Animation Studio LOOSELY based on the novel Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus.
An award winning short film by Konstantin Bronzit from 1994.
A bug's life. Animated short by Mikhail Aldashin
In the big theater hall, Kolobki, Karbofos and striped elephant are shooting a video for a song by the band U-Free - Black Merce.
A story about the life of St. Basil the Blessed.
A small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
A fairy tale about how a village boy, stubborn Vanya, married Princess Mary, helped three old men to divide things, and Tsarevich Vasily to marry Elena the Beautiful.
If you have lost someone, should you look for a replacement?
Based on a Dagestan fairy tale. About the sloppy Shadulla, and about how his wife sent him to the Great Sage.
The film is about the paradoxical nature of everyday life.