Gagarin

Gagarin 1994

6.60

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.

1994

Cheburashka

Cheburashka 2010

6.50

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...

2010

Hen, His Wife

Hen, His Wife 1990

5.70

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.

1990

Andrey Svislotskiy

Andrey Svislotskiy 1991

5.90

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.

1991

Christmas

Christmas 1997

5.40

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

1997

Kolobok

Kolobok 2012

8.90

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.

2012

Introduction

Introduction 1992

1

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.

1992

Pacifier

Pacifier 1993

5.50

Two babies are in dire need of pacification.

1993

Hypnerotomahia

Hypnerotomahia 1992

5.00

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.

1992

Pilot Brothers Drink Tea in the Evenings

Pilot Brothers Drink Tea in the Evenings 1996

1

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.

1996

Naughty Little Bear

Naughty Little Bear 2006

1

Yakut fairy tale about a bear cub who wanted to become a different animal.

2006

2+1=

2+1= 2003

7.00

The film is about the paradoxical nature of everyday life.

2003

«5/4»

«5/4» 1990

4.40

A small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

1990

About Stepan the Blacksmith

About Stepan the Blacksmith 2008

7.00

The tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.

2008

Here Comes the Cat!

Here Comes the Cat! 1992

5.00

Impending trouble in the form of a cat descends upon a mouse settlement

1992

Pilot Brothers Cook Pasta for Breakfast

Pilot Brothers Cook Pasta for Breakfast 1996

1

The brothers woke up in the morning in the city of Berdichev and began to prepare breakfast, without looking up from their usual business and cheerful conversations.

1996