Vladimir Mayilyan

Aging and family memories, grandfather, son and grandson.

A funny story where music brings the fox and playful cuckoos together, turning their rivalry into a joyful symphony of friendship.

A Soviet Armenian animation from the glasnost era about cosmonauts invading a serene planet where they pay a price for their cruel actions.

A homeless man, starving and losing touch with reality, encounters a woman and spirals into violence and delusion.

A little liar on the back desk during a geography lesson talks about his summer adventures.

Two cosmonauts arrive on a barren world and begin a clean-up operation. In the course of their duties, they revive the planet’s civilisation and discover the real reason for its devastation- thermonuclear war. Produced after the peak of tensions in the late Cold War, this animated short from Armenfilm reflects a muted optimism that humanity might- just- avoid total destruction. It also demonstrates the strength of animation under the Soviet system, where even the smaller state studios were capable of inventive but technically polished work.

When all the animals have finished building their houses, the little turtle is still making and making his own. He tries to build the most comfortable, solid and beautiful home.

An adult cartoon about an elderly man who travels by train to the "End of the Earth".