Best Belarusian animation movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch animation films from Belarus, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Tender Owls

    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.

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  • Poster for Children of Future Sleep

    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...

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  • Poster for Long Live Belarus

    Long Live Belarus 2021

    Over 50 animators from 19 countries collaborated to support Belarusians in their peaceful protests for fair elections and freedom. The animators offered their interpretation of the recent events in Belarus, creating the animated chronicles of these dramatic events. The white-red-white flag is a historical symbol of Belarus and has become a symbol of peace, protest, and hope for the people of Belarus. The youngest animator who participated in the project is only 12 years old.

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  • Poster for Forest Tales

    Forest Tales 1997

    A poetic tale directed by Elena Petkevich for children on a small grasshopper, which is trying to learn the secret of life.

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  • Please, Call Back Later 2010

    Escaping from her daily routine, a girl gets into an imaginary city of her dreams - Seoul.

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  • Poster for Little Match Girl

    Little Match Girl 1996

    Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

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  • Poster for There Was A Tree

    There Was A Tree 1996

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

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  • Poster for 263 Nights

    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.

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  • The Maugly 2022

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  • 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.

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  • Poster for Dreams

    Dreams 1992

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

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  • The Tale of a Silly Chick 1994

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

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  • Poster for Christmas Stories

    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.

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