Booklet RAF View 2012.Pdf

Contents Introduction...... 5 Features...... 6 Feature Films in Production...... 12 TV Series...... 18 TV Projects...... 48 Shorts...... 56 Student Films...... 98 The Golden 100 of Russian Animation...... 124 Contacts...... 136 Russian Animated Film Association (RAFA) Russia’s first and only professional organization established to lobby, support and promote the work of the Russian animation industry at both home and abroad. RAFA strives to create conditions for the effective development of Russian animation, including building relationships with foreign government agencies and producers in order to facilitate Russia’s participation in international co-productions under mutually beneficial terms. Dear friends and colleagues, We hereby present selected Russian animated films made in 2010-2012, as well as several projects in production. The current moment is really significant for the Russian animation. Not only because in 2012, we celebrate the 100th birthday of the first Russian animated film – Beautiful Leukanida by Wladyslaw Starewicz. But also because nowadays our animation industry positively and forcible develops after a complicated post-Soviet period. The animators build ambitious plans for the next century of glorious history. The most interesting and the most complicated challenge for Russian animation directors at the moment is not to forget about gorgeous Russian tradition in the same time to meet the requirements of the modern epoch. In other words, it is to extend their masters’ and teachers’ accomplishment in the same time to combine it with technological progress and brand new cinema language. Another delicate challenge is learning to confidently discover a balanced proportion between national identity and universal clarity of cinema statement. From this point of view Russian animation has its ups and downs, but the passport for success for the Russian animation directors is their operational excellence. Well-honed skills and delicate handling with matter can be easily seen both in magnificent puppet films, and in drawn cartoons, as well as in refined computer practices, and in marvelous plasticine efforts, and in experiments with uncommon animation techniques. It goes without saying that not all of the Russian animated films made during the abovementioned period are presented in this catalogue. It’s just because all of them can’t be placed in one lookbook. Among the shorts, we chose those ones awarded at different festivals or recognized by critics. Among the full- length films, we selected those ones with significant box-office. And we picked the most popular projects among series, those ones beloved by audience or those ones that had a powerful pilot start-up. We’ll be glad if this catalogue makes you love Russian animation, and we hope that any day now it becomes a welcome guest in every home all over the world.

Sincerely yours, Masha Tereschenko Film critic & program director of the Big Cartoon Festival Features Features

Buratino’s Return

Adventure In a big city, a villain named The fearless Buratino and his Drawind 2D (converted into 3D Mr. Baskara opened a factory friends – the inspired Pierrot, stereoscopic) Family were toys, lost or abandoned the Little Rabbit abandoned 76 min by children, were recycled and by its owner, and the brave 2012 turned into horrible monsters. girl Varya – join in the battle Baskara’s aim was to change against the evil forces and, the world and raise a heartless together with all toys, defeat generation. the evil Baskara. To escape from such a terrible fate, the abandoned toys hide in an underground city. But Baskara’s agents find them even there, and send them onto a merciless assembly line…