Animated Films
Fish Power
Animated Short Film
2024

Country: Russia
Runtime 5 min
Rating: 6+
Production: Light Studio, LLC
Director: Varvara Volkova
Scriptwriter: Anastasia Kropaleva
Producers: Stanislav Shapovalov, Ira Volkova
Starring: Polina Merkuryeva, Alya Khan
Composer: Ekaterina Khmelevskaya
Sound engineer: Daria Zhukova
Artist: Maria Pelikhova

The girl helps her grandmother forget about her illness for a while and spend her last days in love and with a new hobby that brings her joy and makes her happy.
Varvara Volkova
DIRECTOR’S BIO:

Varvara was born in Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia. She graduated from school in Moscow. Since childhood, she has loved animation and cinema, drawing illustration and music. In 2021, she graduated from the Painting course under the instruction of Natalia Kondratova and Yulia Reznikova. She participated in the exhibition Beginning of the Journey: Traditions and Changes in the Art of the Young. She is currently a fourth-year student at VGIK, Animation and Multimedia Department, workshop by Viktor Azeev. She participated in the second almanac FUNK: Ideas and Technologies Changing the World. In her spare time, she volunteers at film festivals.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2024 – Fish Power
2023 – FUNK: Ideas and Technologies Changing the World" (short story Murka),
2023 – A Year in the Spaceship
2023 – Mom’s Sea
2022 – Sun, Moon and Wind
2022 – Flying Bombs