Merry Grandmas!
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Director: Natalia Mirzoyan / Russia / 2020 / 8 min
Russian / Czech simultaneous translation, English subtitles
13:30 - 13:38
Golden Apple Cinema, 3
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.
Left by her parents at her grandmother’s on New Year’s Eve, Masha gradually finds herself surrounded by old ladies.
This film screens as part of the programNorthern Lights and other animations.
