Ties

Kukuschka is a bird, who follows the sun. It seems to her as if she already could touch It, but the Sun is still far away. Suddenly she is not alone anymore, but for two it's even more difficult to keep going so fast. She will reach the Sun, may be tommorow may be the day after.

Little chicken Zina has a big dream - to learn to fly. How can it be fulfilled?

This story is about a mother who has given so much that it looks like she has nothing left... but the life opens up the new opportunities

A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle - merely from garbage.

A king and queen have everything they could possibly want — love, castles, horses, gardens, pets ... but something is missing.

The “small” one is, well, small, and the “big” one is definitely very very big. They are friends.

Based on their experiences living and working amongst Soviet-era concrete, panel-block apartments, the filmmaker, together with five visual artists, examine past and present attitudes towards their former homes. Combining touching, personal stories with experimental research on the history of twentieth-century art and architecture, the film creates both a compelling narrative, and a contemporary aesthetic of panel-block mass housing using original watercolors, put into motion using digital animation and stop-motion techniques. As global and personal histories interweave, the film explores notions of moral and political responsibility as evinced in physical space.

This 22nd edition comprises 10 films -- nine recent, along with one restored classic -- which deal with both the anxieties and hopes of a world faced with a seemingly endless series of existential crises. All are inventive, their tone ranges from the whimsical to the profound; their techniques, from stop-motion to hand-drawn to computer-aided.

A children's horror story draws a carefree girl into the world of the past war. After experiencing fear, she comes back different…

The film is about a boy whose parents are divorced. Divorced on different sides of the river. There is only a bridge that the boy needs to cross alone.