Studio "Pilot"

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.

Claymation based on the Hutsul folk tale, which tells the story of how troubles settled in the house of good landlords Petro and Marichka.

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.

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

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...

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.

An award winning short film by Konstantin Bronzit from 1994.

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

Moldovan fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about a fearless hero named Basil Fat-Frumos.

An ironic and romantic story of the incredible adventures of the famous Russian inventor.

The goat and the ram ran away from the owner in search of a better life.

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.

A simple life of simple creatures in a wonderful and awful world.

My grandfather and grandmother were left alone in their old age. My grandmother grew a vegetable garden, went after the cattle. My grandfather also did not sit idle, he made dishes out of clay for people (noble clay in those places!): bowls-plates, pitchers-makhotki, mugs-bowls, krynki and pots. And somehow it happened by itself – one of the pots came to life, oh, and the ruddy son came out!

A boy named Alik does not want to read the Torah. He asks his grandfather why this is necessary, and in response, his grandfather tells him a story...

A surreal animated short from Russian animation studio, Pilot. At night when everybody sleeps, strange things happen, but in the morning everything is in its place. But is it really so?

A parody version of the famous book by Charles Darwin. For adults.

In a strange house in the forest, three cheerful and hard-working goats accidentally got a harmful boy Cornflower.

A story about the life of St. Basil the Blessed.

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.