Hasta La Motion!

drama, 2014 Director, artist, animation – Sasha Svirsky. Composer, music, sound – Grigory Shmidko Music – Grigory Mumrikov Synopsis: Dramatic story of a man and a woman who had a short but torrid love affair. The affair had high consequences – the young woman was pregnant and dreamt to get married with the father of a future baby, but the man chose a not young but rich bride instead of her. To hide his relationship with the young woman he went in for a terrible act. Some ants became witnesses of that act. As time passes the ants stop being just witnesses and following their instincts and laws known only to them they rule the destinies of the characters and redress an injustice. Festival list: Vkratze Short Film Festival, Volgograd, Russia, March 2014 – The second prize Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy, April 2014 – competition program Kinolikbez Short Film Festival, Barnaul, Russia, May 2014 – The best animation film 8th Tarkovsky Film Festival THE MIRROR, Ples-Ivanovo, Russia, June 2014 – special program Insomnia Animation Film Festival, Moscow, Russia, July 2014 – The third prize 12th Fantoche Animation Film Festival, Baden, Switzerland, September 2014 – competition program FestAnca, Animation Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia, June 2014 – special program FIA Animation Film Festival, Montevideo, Uruguay, September 2014 – competition program 7th Banja Luka, Animation Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 2014 – competition program Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia, October 2014 Anilogue International Animation Festival, Budapest, Hungary, November 2014 – competition program 18th Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherland, March 2015 – competition program 19th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, Suzdal, Russia, March 2015 – competition program 17th Mecal, International short film festival Barcelona, Spain, May 2015 – competition program 18th edition of the International Short Film Festival Barcelona Mecal Pro, Santiago de Chile, 2015 World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Bulgaria, September 2015 – competition program International Animated Film Festival KROK, Moscow-S.Petersburg, Russia, September 2015 LIAF, London, UK, December 2015 – competition program