Nina Shorina

The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring.

The system of curve mirrors ugly deforming human features. We laugh, seeing the reflection, not noticing that the ugliness becomes our essence.

The residents of a building have found novel ways to enter and exit as their front door is broken. However, once the door is repaired they continue to avoid the door.

Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.

The action takes place during the Second World War in the battle zone over the Black Sea coast. Soviet sailors track down an enemy submarine. Meanwhile, the commander of the Sea Hunter, along with one of the sailors, is not returning from intelligence. Young patriots Katya and Lida report to the boat about the signal of unknown friends who noticed a submarine. Thanks to this, Soviet sailors drown an enemy boat, and the brave reconnaissance Katya, who knows the mountain paths of the coast well, discovers a Sea Hunter commander and a seriously wounded sailor in one of the caves ..

"About Buka" by animator Nina Shorina, famous for "The Door". In Russian, no subtitles.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.

Alexey and Valentina met in the tourist camp on Seliger, and after two weeks they celebrated their wedding. Returning to the family, the young couple faced the first difficulties. Both parents didn't like the willfulness of the young - and there were problems with housing. They started a constant quarrels. The young soon agreed that their wedding was premature ...

A story about a group of children spending their summer vacation in the village.

High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.

A statue of immense beauty has to come to life, and all wish to win her heart. But she is a peri, a Persian spirit of seraphic beauty, who should belong to none.

Based on Anton Chekhov's short story "Ward No. 6" and other works.

Stop motion animation. Part 3 in a series. A comet is on a collision course with Earth. The oceans have dried up, and Moomintroll and friends need to make their way through raging sandstorms to get home to their parents.

The whole film has three, (but in reality, two main) characters. Most of the action takes place in a country house, home to the pair. She - a Japanese translator, he - a man without a definite occupation, lover of the texts of Nietzsche (which he reads fluently in its original language) and St. Augustine (who is quoted in Latin). They are Moscow intelligentsia who have emigrating to their own cultural space. A couple so different that it is difficult to understand what keeps them together. It seems they live together, not because of, but rather in spite of everything that is happening (or rather, not happening) between them.

Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.

Volume 4 (1986-1991): "Door", "Boy Is a Boy", "Liberated Don Quixote", "Martinko", "Big Underground Ball", "Cat and Clown", "Dream", "Kele", "Alter Ego", "Girlfriend", "Croak x Croak", "Cat and Company".

About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...

About a bear cub who wanted to become a circus star, but was late for the circus express train because he violated traffic rules.

An educational cartoon designed to introduce foreign audiences to the cultural, technical, and scientific achievements of the Soviet Union.

Stop-motion animation. A comet is hurtling towards Earth. Moomintroll and friends travel to a mountaintop observatory to investigate.

After finishing school in their native village, Tolyasha (Igor Pushkarev) and Valya take exams to enter the pedagogical institute, but both fail. They return to their Green Shores. Valya works on a poultry farm and soon becomes a famous poultry farmer, and Tolyasha works as a driver. After a series of misunderstandings, their personal relationships improve...