Nobody Home

An animated short film that deconstructs and exposes the exhausted Soviet cliches in search of truth which is traditional for glasnost and perestroika era.

Puppet animation about a city of light bulbs. The existence of this remarkable city depends on one big lantern. Every day, a lamplighter switches it on and off. One day someone steals the light bulb from the lantern.

A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks.

Hraï, Oko and Tour come across extraterrestrials in search of oil to repair their saucer and be able to return home. Together, they cross Europe, find themselves defending Bulgaria invaded by enemies, discover an aqueduct in Italy and narrowly escape the Inquisition in Spain.

In anticipation of the great Christian holiday of Easter, one of the boys wanted to get ready for it by making painted eggs himself, as required by a long-standing tradition. But he took eggs from a hen that was hatching her children. Falling asleep, Hrytsko saw a strange dream. Based on a fairy tale by Oleksandr Oles.

An allegorical story about a cow trying to escape from a dairy, where she will die.

A morning tram over-occupied with passengers, but more and more people are trying to get in there. Inside, the life fountains. Someone talks about their troubles with children, somebody experiences a personal trauma, others can not stand up to quarrel, neighbors discuss a TV-series... All the events where usually, at least in the days this cartoon was created, common Ukrainians are involved in on their way to job-places is shown in this curious, vivid and witty claymation.

This story is full of images and context, even though it is a simple story about a crocodile that ate a disagreeable man, it turns out that also addresses the problem of property and economic principles. Of course, all this is done to give a humorous effect, denouncing the social order, which may be contrary to the common sense.

Life is a game in which there may be no second chance ...

The story of the adventures of a small unattractive but very good doll who is willing to help his friend even at the cost of his life. There are two realities in the cartoon - the world of dolls made in a doll factory, and in fact, the real world in which the main character of the film finds himself.

The life and adventures of an airplane Lip, who wanted to travel far beyond the oceans to view the different states and their customs. But he was not trusted to do such important and long voyages, which, of course, made Lip upset. Then one day he had to save passengers having earned universal recognition and respect.

A fairy tale about a town where all creatures and even nature consist of watch mechanisms. Trash scattered on the sidewalk, animals, birds, trees and the local population looks a bit like a robot – all this consists of a lot of details and diagrams. A watchmaker helps them all, the only man of flesh and blood in this country. As if being a doctor, he accepts those who have any complaints. Life goes on, until one day the unexpected happens.

One day, a son of a king went for a ride in the woods. He fell asleep and didn’t notice he was deep in the forest, where the iron wolf lives. The angry roar and the gnashing of steel jaws awakened him, and he broke into a run to save himself from the dreadful monster.

The collection of miniatures. The first is called "Glasses" and it deals with how a man with poor eyesight once ordered the glasses at his wife’s insistance. His sight came back to him, and with it the ability to see what dowdy and ugly his wife is and how uncomfortable their house is. In such a situation, he chose not to wear glasses. Thumbnails "Othello" and "Big and small" are also about the relationship between men and women.

The girl Hanusya and her younger brother Andriyko lived in the village, whose mother was taken captive by the Horde, and whose father, who went to free her, also disappeared. The Cossack Stepan is courting Hanusya, but she promised to marry only after the return of her parents. All three find themselves in danger, because they are pursued by the devil, who was driven out of hell by Satan himself, having ordered to harm at least one human soul.

One boy was worried that no one perceived him as an adult and independent person. He wanted to do something or realize himself in an exciting profession to be worthy of respect of his parents and family. But for now these goals were not available for him to achieve, so he was limited by flying rampant imagination.