#ukrainian animation

[freebagels]

I'm still not normal about them

[vintage-ukraine]

Poplar, dir. by Valentyna Kostylyeva, 1996

[bearfoottruck]

I'm a fan of Eastern European animation, and if anyone's looking for some Ukrainian animated films to watch, here are a few for your viewing pleasure, along with links to trailers:

Mavka: The Forest Song

Victor Robot

Clara

Gulliver Returns

The Stolen Princess

The Dragon Spell

[pseuddamntired]

A cool song that gives me unearned nostalgia

So I’ve been using the radiooooo app a lot and was listening to 80’s Ukraine today. This song came up for me a couple days ago and again today: Alice Theme 1, by Volodymyr Bystriakov (Ukrainian: Володимир Бистряков) composed for an animated adaptation of Lewis Carol’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. The film was made by the Kyiv-based film studio Kyivnaukfilm (Ukrainian: Київнаукфільм).

I love this song. It’s so good. It feels like video game music in the best possible way. The melody gives me such a feeling of nostalgia. It feels haunting but comforting at the same time? I love it. I haven’t listened to the whole soundtrack of the movie but now I want to.

Here’s the song:

And here’s the film’s full soundtrack:

I want to watch this movie now but I’m not certain if I can find one with subtitles since I don’t know Ukrainian. I’ll do my best to search though!!

I just thought this was such a cool song and it makes me feel things.

[freezoneokay]

Mavka. The Forest Song

Making of

[batterknowsbetter]

Eneida Енеїда (1991) dir. Volodymyr Dakhno

[tinyhorror]

canon interaction

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[folklorespring]

If you want to support Ukrainians, DO NOT donate to Red Cross. Can't speak about their work in other countries, but they're useless in Ukraine. The only trustworthy international organisation I can think of is World Central Kitchen.

Donate to World Central Kitchen

And it's even better to donate directly to Ukrainian organisations. Here are a few good legit places:

hospitallers.life - "Hospitallers", Ukrainian paramedics on the frontlines

savelife.in.ua - "Come Back Alive", assistance to the army

prytulafoundation.org - "Prytula Foundation", assistance to the army, humanitarian causes

starenki.com.ua - "Starenki", helping elderly people

everybodycan.com.ua - "Everybody Can", helping disabled children, elders and hospitals

uanimals.org - "UAnimals", saving animals

[redbullfiinch]

i wish we could have more of their mentor-student dynamic

[dariarix]

📓 DEATH NOTE x Homicipher 🩸

[unhonestlymirror]

From Ukrainian cartoon "Pravda i Kryvda"

[vintage-ukraine]

How Wives Sold Their Husbands, dir. by Iryna Hurvych, 1972

[kashkadavr]

I felt the urge to draw my first serious childhood OTP

[fibula-rasa]

Poplar Tree / Тополя (1996)  

[letterboxd | dovzhenko centre]

Director: Valentyna Kostylieva

Camera: Svitlana Novi

Animator: Oksana Karpus

Studio: Укранімафільм

[redjaybathood]

HUR rescued 15 cats (a whole colony) from the Snake Island (of "russian warship, go fuck yourself" fame)

I hope everything will be okay with the cats and kittens. Animals are suffering in this war no less than humans - for a lot of them, their suffering is directly tied to the human one. You don't know how many stories I read about people trying to find homes for cats that were forced to be homeless, either because their owners died, or close to it. One such case is about a cat in Kharkiv: her owner is from Donetsk region, she is a refugee herself and was evacuated together with her cat, and was living in allocated room - but with the constant shelling, her health took a nosedive. She is now in an assisted living facility and probably won't be able to leave anymore. The cat is now homeless.

A lot of cats and dogs, not to mention non-domesticated animals, can't be evacuated from the active war zones. Zoos were hit, forests burned down or were shoot through with artillery and mines.

Ecocide after russians blew up Kakhovka dam.

Ecocide after russians poisoned a river.

That human safari russians conduct with drones in Kherson where they hunt Ukrainian civillians for sport? They do it with dogs too.

Such are the times. This is what russia does.

[hubt0i]

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