COMPETITION PROGRAM -
ANIMATED SHORT FILMS
Around Victor
Вокруг Вити
Year of production: 2023
Production country: Russia
Production company: Paranoid Animation Studio LLC.
Director: Vasily Korepanov
Producer: Alena Sycheva, Kirill Keychenko
Screenwriter: Vasily Korepanov
Composer: Tony Laubinger
Production Designer: Vasily Korepanov, Polina Merkulova
Sound Director: Denis Malov
Cast: Gleb Kritsyn, Mikhail Tikhonov, Nadezhda Savchenko, Yana Barabash
Film category: Comedy
Rating: 6+
Length: 13 min.
The teenager Victor lives in a city on the border of worlds among giant talking animals, aliens and magical creatures. Victor isn't worried about the strange environment. He suffers from common teenage problems. Victor would like to completely immerse himself, but he constantly has to be distracted: together with his classmates – the giant rabbit Khrum-Khrum and the cat-girl Maruko – he sets off on exciting adventures, unravels mysteries and stops evil.
Selected festival history
2024
  • 29 Open Russian Animated Film Festival in Suzdal (participant of the competition program),
2023
  • 2nd International Animation Film Festival "Animur" in Khabarovsk (Prize for the best series),
  • 1st Voronezh International Animation Festival "MultPraktika", (participant of the competition program),
  • 31st Russian Film Festival "Vyborg" (participant of the competition program),
  • 45 Moscow International Film Festival (participant of the "Multiverse" program)
Vasily Korepanov
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Born and raised in Chelyabinsk. In 2020 he graduated from the Faculty of Screen Arts, Department of Directing, majoring in Animation and Computer Graphics Director of the St. Petersburg State Film and Television Institute. Author of comics (under the pseudonym BACR).

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - Portrait of a Boring Man
2018 - Hunting the Snark
2017 - Into the Deep