Animated Films
Official Selection
There Once Lived a Tiger
Animated Short Film
2025

Country: Russia
Runtime 12.5 minutes
Rating: 0+
Directors: Marina Verik, Dmitry Mosyagin
Scriptwriters: Dmitry Mosyagin, Tatiana Kiselyova
Producer: Dmitry Mosyagin
Composer: Artyom Fadeev
Artists: Evgenia Ilchenko, Alexandra Sviridova
Production: Frodo Animation Studio LLC

The story of an unusual friendship between a tiger and a goat in the Primorsky Zoo, about how a direct goat helped a bored tiger to gain freedom.
Marina Verik
DIRECTOR'S BIO:

Marina was born in 1991 in the Kherson region, Ukraine. In 2010, she graduated from the VGIK College of Cinema, Television and Multimedia, and in 2015 from the VGIK Department of Animation and Multimedia, majored in animation film directing.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2010 – We’re going on and on ...
2015 – The Tale of a Poor Fisherman, His Daughter Mashenka, a Filthy Monster, Major Sidorchuk and... the Eaten Princess
2016 – Voices
2019 – The Giant Bull. A Mountain of Gems
Dmitry Mosyagin
DIRECTOR'S BIO:

Dmitry is a founder, producer, director and screenwriter of the Animation studio Frodo. The animated films “The Cure for Obedience” (2018) and “There Once Loved a Tiger” (2025) are based on his script.