Five Minutes to Sea

Natalia
Mirzoyan

Natalia Mirzoyan is an animation director and artist based in Estonia, originally from Yerevan, Armenia. She holds a Master's degree in Animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA).
Her films, including My Childhood Mystery Tree (2009), Chinti (2012), Five Minutes to Sea (2018), and Merry Grandmass (2020), have been selected for numerous prestigious festivals, such as Berlinale, Annecy, Zagreb, and Hiroshima, earning her multiple awards. Winter in March (2025) is her first puppet animation film.
Natalia is working with a range of techniques, from hand-drawn to stop-motion. In addition to her work in animation, she is an artist, illustrator, and sketcher.

Boredom ensues when a mother tells her little girl that she has to take a 5-minute break from swimming in the ocean. She observes the other bathers as she waits

This film screens as part of the programThe Big Bad Wolf Is Back and other animations.