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IFF Message to Man > 2026 > National Competition > Chicks

Chicks

Information about the film

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Anna Donskova

Operator: Anna Donskova

Screenwriter: Anna Donskova

Producer: Taisiya Shlepneva, Victoria Aksenova, Victor Fedoseev

Producer company : chela Animation Studio, Big Animation School

Year: 2025

Country: Russia

Duration: 4 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

The everyday lives of young women after arrest — in a detention centre, and in the time before.

 

About the director:

Chicks

Anna Donskova

Director and animator. She graduated in animation from the Business & Design Institute in 2023 and as a director of animated film from the Big Animation School (Roza Gimatdinova’s workshop) in 2026. Her film And Maybe Over There They… (2026) screened in the Russian section of the Big Cartoon Festival.

 

Contacts:

studiopchela.ru

pchelastudiofest@gmail.com

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