Best Belarusian animation movies

Tender Owls (2015)

A music video made collaboratively for the strange 1994 song by French band Les Pirez, which had become a hit at one of the main Russian domestic animation festivals.

Children of Future Sleep (2016)

This is a story about the mysterious world of anti-utopian future where each human-being's fallen asleep and replaced himself by robots. Unusual robot is destined to find output - he is seeking answers to his disturbing dreams...

the lane of time (2016)

This is a story of the lane which becomes a witness of civilization development with final understanding of historic recurrence.

Little Match Girl (1996)

Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

There Was A Tree (1996)

A philosophical parable about the lives of a girl, her parents, and a tree.

The Maugly (2022)

Dreams (1992)

The dreams of the protagonist, inspired by the tragic reality of the Russian revolutions.

The Tale of a Silly Chick (1994)

A parable about meaning of life, starring a recently-hatched chick who can transform into different creatures.

Christmas Stories (1994)

Two Christmas-themed stories: about the night of Christ's birth, and about a good deed that is remembered many decades later. Adapted from texts by Sasha Chyornyy and Archpriest Dimitriy Gavrilovich Bulgakovskiy.

263 Nights (2021)

This Belorusian animated documentary is narrated by the People’s Artist of Russia Aristarkh Livanov. It is an actual story of the 26 prisoners of the Minsk ghetto who have voluntarily confined themselves in the basement, short on food and water — and waited for the Red Army to arrive. They have spent the terrible 263 days and nights there. The youngest son of the stove maker Pinchus Dobin, who built that heaven-sent and hell-bent basement, is still alive.

COOL (News from Belarus) (2023)

In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.