Neural Network Films
Official Selection
Bali. Hello from Neptune
Neural Network Films
2025

Country: Russia
Runtime 3 min 25 s
Rating: 14+
Director: Andrey Kardonov, Elena Karmadonova
Scriptwriter: Elena Karmadonova
Producers: Andrey Kardonov, Elena Karmadonova Cameraman: Andrey Kardonov
Sound engineer: Andrey Kardonov
Composer: Andrey Kardonov (SUNOAI)
Artist: Andrey Kardonov
Starring: Neural Network characters Production: Work with neural networks – Andrey Kardonov

Vasily, a 40-year-old Russian intellectual, is terrified to fly to Bali as a member of the jury. His sceptically minded and very caring wife, Anna, sees him off, confident that he will go missing without her. At the Ngurah Rai airport, Vasily collects a flyer of a local nightclub and decides to go to a place he hasn’t been to since school.
Life flies faster than time. In the elite club, he gulps down a ‘Hello from Neptune’ blue welcome cocktail and suddenly turns into the life and soul of the party: He rips off his jacket, dances break, burn up the dance floor all night long until he falls asleep in a sling-chair right by the sea. He gets thirsty In the morning and unknowingly eats some strange berries. Hallucinating, he mistakes a turtle and a monkey for a luxury car with a lady, and the monkey steals his purse.
He hardly makes it the last moment to the award ceremony in shabby clothes and a straw hat. He returns home tanned, in an exotic outfit and with a green mohawk under his hat. Anna, seeing a huge photo of his crazy adventures already on the Internet, faints when she sees her husband changed
Andrey Kardonov
DIRECTOR'S BIO:

I am a software developer by training. I manage teams and run projects.
My role in the team is in writing verses, neural network generation of music and songs, design, video content generation, post-processing.
Filmography consists of three short clips.
Elena Karmadonova
DIRECTOR'S BIO:

Writer, economist by education, psychologist. In 2010, I wrote Financial Tales for Kids in collaboration with E. Frolova, and the book was translated into 3 languages. More than 10 books for children have been published. I’m engaged in charity events for children and adults (more than 100 events on financial literacy and sessions with the author have been held in Russia). In joint works, I act as a screenwriter and art critic.