Svetlana Filippova

A film based on Boris Shergin’s story “Mitya’s Love.” Mitya, a shipbuilder, walked to a theater in Solombala from Arkhangelsk. Along the way, he ran into a wind. Near him a girl, Maria Ivanovna, flew Mitya helped her fly to the theater and fell in love with her. They were able to confess their feelings for one another, but Maria Ivanovna then disappeared. What is Mitya to do? He decided to go around the whole city to find her. In the film, images by avant-garde Russian artists Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova and naïve artists Pavel Leonov and Lyubov Maikova are used.

Rouge et Blanche, two happy twin sisters, live in an arid plain on the edge of a hostile forest they are afraid to approach. The danger comes from elsewhere.

Anna and Misha, the parents of seventeen-year-old Ivan and his older sister Varya, recently separated. Misha, out of habit, sometimes comes to the old courtyard, secretly observes the life of his family. Ivan is watching his father.

Five-year-old Sasha often listens to the opera Madame Butterfly. It is shown on TV and broadcast on the radio. The story of Madame Butterfly becomes for Sasha the key to the dramas that take place in the family, but which she still cannot understand.

Night comes. For a boy in a dark room, this is a time of fear.

Brutus led a happy life next to Malenka. Returning home, he knew that he had to scratch the door only once, very quietly, to check whether she was really waiting for him. Sometimes, when she was getting dressed before the mirror, he could see two Malenkas, but after a while he understood that only the one that smelled beautiful was real. 'I belong to her and I will never leave her', he thought. One day, following the order of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, everyone unable to prove their Aryan roots had to return their pets. This was the day when Brutus' life changed completely.

The rule of the universe: the tree should be planted for to be grown; the snow should be cleaned for the spring to come; for finding something new, the old one is to be lost. Sarah, a 6-year-old girl, thinks so. It seems to be true.

Using several historical images, the film narrates three love stories by Vladimir Maiakovsky, one of the most acclaimed Russian poets from the 20th century.

Produced by students of the Animation Cinema and Digital Arts course, the film was shot under the coordination of Russian animator Svetlana Filippova. In the plot, based on the homonymous tale by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the prejudices of a society are exposed.

Many people think the sky is just the sky. But the sky can be different. It all depends on how you choose to look at it...

A person grows up and leaves home. All his life he wants to return home – to the past. But many things are happening that he cannot change: the mother is getting old, the house is being destroyed, the dog is dying. It happens to everyone and it's inevitable. Everything turns into a memory, a dream or a movie.