The winners of the contest were announced at the anniversary animation festival "Suzdalfest"

At the XXX anniversary Suzdalfest (March 19-24), the winners of the competition were announced and awards were presented.

The crown of the film: "Anora" with Yura Borisov — the best picture at the Oscar

The award had no surprises and almost no politics.

The first place in the audience voting and the second in the rating of the festival's professionals was taken by a film about the Holocaust called "The Tale of Sparkle". This is a small doll fantasy about what a girl sees in a dream, sleeping in her mother's arms in a freight car. The film lasts only seven minutes. The realization of how the animation will end comes gradually. The finale has a strong effect on the viewer, where only the hissing of gas on a black background is heard against the background of the credits.

Both main awards (the Grand Prix of the jury and 1st place in the professional rating) of the Suzdalfest went to the main favorite of the competition, Dmitry Geller's Alyoshenka, a film about the USSR and an alien. Alyoshenka was named after a strange creature, a Kyshtym dwarf, which was found in 1996.

The jury's diplomas were awarded to the sarcastic essay "Socially approved positions of bodies in space", which ends with Lenin in the Mausoleum, and the macabre black comedy "Tram No. 13", where a little girl defied Death and saved all her victims, passengers of the vehicle, from the old woman.

"The festival exists primarily to see how our industry pulsates, what it breathes," Konstantin Bronzit, a two—time Oscar nominee, told Izvestia.

Another of the Suzdalfest programs was the morning screenings of children's amateur works. These are cartoons that were made by children from the age of four to almost adulthood.

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