Pioneer will show hits of independent animation

On Thursday, January 26, the premiere of the London International Animation Festival (LIAF), the main independent animation festival of Europe, will be held in the Moscow Cinema Pioneer.

In December 2016, Liaf was held for the 13th time, in the festival program there were 128 films from 33 countries. For Russian impressions, short animation films from British and international competitions have been selected.

Among them are the work of Russian directors: the film “Once upon a time” of Alisia Yasina, who was included in the short list of Oscars, and the winner of the festival , the film “Before Love” Igor Kovalev is a story about loneliness, misunderstanding and disunity of people in the modern world.

In addition, the program has nine more films:

• “Method of trial and error” (Germany), dir. Alexander Izert and Antier Hine;
• "Mayak" (Netherlands), dir. Simon Schreiber;
• “Slightly gray” (UK), dir. Steve Smith and Simon Hughitt;
• "Balcon" (Hungary), dir. David del Eder;
• “Perception Error” (Great Britain), dir. Terry Matthews;
• “He and it” (Belgium), dir. Chris Genein and Peter Vanluffelin;
• “The path without beginning and end” (Great Britain), dir. Michelle Brand;
• "Failure" (Hungary), dir. Borbala Mesarosh and Zhuzhanna Radoki;
• "Cosmos of Alan" (UK), dir. Jack Klinch.