...has its Moscow premiere at the 44th Festival of Japanese Film on Nov. 14 at 15:10. I earlier wrote about this film in 2009. Cheburashka became hugely popular in Japan since 2001, when the original Soviet short films were shown in two small Tokyo cinemas and were seen by over 10,000 people. And that provided the impetus for this Japanese/Korean/ ( Read more... )

A 2010-08-27 news report by RIA Novosti says that work on this Soyuzmultfilm animated feature, which I earlier wrote about in 2007, 2008 and 2009, is actually still progressing. I've added English subtitles so you can watch it below.

(if the subtitles don't show, click on the "CC" button)

UPDATE (2011-08-13): The video below won't work now; watch ( Read more... )

In 2008, this project started as an attempt to create the first Moldovan 3D animated short. In 2009, rumours started floating around that it had morphed into a feature film. Now, AWN reports that STV Film (from Russia) is going to fund a planned 5-year production with 5 million euros, and Sympals studio will be hiring 100 workers ( Read more... )

This is the first existing trailer for the upcoming animated feature by the award-winning director Garri Bardin, which he's been working on for almost 6 years. The Russian public release will hopefully be on Sept. 16, 2010, while the international premiere is at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in August. I did the English ( Read more... )

ValerieChatoner has finally finished her long project of translating this 2007 animated feature by Melnitsa Animation Studio (directed by Vladimir Toropchin). She uploaded part 1 on June 27, 2009, and part 14 on June 30, 2010. Her subtitles serve as a beautiful tool for people wanting to learn Russian, because both languages are displayed ( Read more... )

Here are a few videos in which director Aleksandr Petrov talks about how he makes his films. To turn on my English subtitles, click on CC in the lower-right-hand corner. (P.S. these videos have been added to the new article on the Animatsiya Wiki: List of subtitled films and reports about Russian animationThis is a news report that appeared on Nov. ( Read more... )

First of all, an announcement: director Garri Bardin is accepting questions on the Russian forum prodisney.ru. If anyone has any questions that they'd like to ask him, I can translate them into Russian and post them there. The original thread is hereFor the past five years, Garri Bardin's Stayer Studio has been working on the animated feature "The ( Read more... )

Gofmaniada is an upcoming stop-motion-animated feature film being directed at Soyuzmultfilm studio by director Stanislav Sokolov, based on the tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann. They've been working on it since 2001. There is more information on its Wikipedia article ( Read more... )

In a February 18 interview, director Sergei Seryogin said that when they were just beginning to make their feature film, they posted their art designs on an "Alice Seleznyova" fan site.

"They caused a commotion. A lot of criticism came my way. [...] This project has been open from the outset; we read and listened with interest to what people ( Read more... )

In an earlier entry, I mentioned the Russian sci-fi animated feature "Alice's Birthday" (Wikipedia article is here). Here is a scene from the film:

День рождения Алисы, отрывок

"Professor, where is your star?"
"Over there. Malakashta."
"And our sun?"
"You can't see it from here. It is too far."Work on this film began in 2004. After premiering on ( Read more... )