Animated Films
Official Selection
Alyoshenka
Animated Short Film
2025

Country: Russia
Runtime 24 min
Director: Dmitry Geller
Scriptwriter: Vladimir Geller
Producer: Nikolay Makovsky
Artist: Anna Karpova
Production: Studio Shar

The alien Alyoshenka finds himself on the Earth following a chain of strange dramatic and sometimes comical events. His appearance sets in motion different forces and worlds: some want Alyoshenka to stay on the Earth, others do not, but the cold outer space and his home planet, lost somewhere out there, are calling him to back.
Dmitry Geller
DIRECTOR'S BIO

Dmitry Geller was born in 1970 in the city of Sverdlovsk. He is an independent artist. He participated in art exhibitions in Sverdlovsk, Moscow, Copenhagen, Washington, St. Petersburg and Sofia. From 1990 to 1995, he was an artist at the A-film studio. In 1997, he graduated from the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors in Moscow, the workshop by Fyodor Khitruk, Yuri Norstein, Eduard Nazarov, Andrei Khrzhanovsky. Dmitry is a director of photography, co-author of screenplays, animation artist of animated films; author of animated sequences for feature films and documentaries.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2020 – 10,000 Ugly Spots
2020 – Mistress of the Copper Mountain
2017 – Fish, Swimmers, Ships
2014 – Man Meets Woman
2012 – A Small Pond at the Foot of the Great Wall
2011 – I Saw the Mice of the Cat Buried
2010 – The Sparrow Who Knew How to Keep His Word
2008 – The Boy
2006 – Declaration of Love
2004 – Craft
2003 – Little Night Symphony
2001 – Greetings from Kislovodsk
1997 – The Secret Is You