COMPETITION PROGRAM -
ANIMATED SHORT FILMS
Tadpole
Головастик
Year of production: 2022
Production country: Kazakhstan
Production company: Kazakhfilm
Director: Kuanysh Nagyz
Producer: Gulmira Ablapova
Screenwriter: Sadykova Gulmira
Composer: Serik Kudaiberdiev
Editor: Kabepaev Tivaldi
Production Designer: Kairat Berlibek
Sound Director: Serik Kabepaev
Cast: Kuanysh Nagyz,Kairat Berlibek,Samal Aldabergenova,Zhanargul Akhmetzhanova, Diana Satybaldy,Symbat Amirzhanova
Film category: Animation
Rating: 12+
Length: 6 min.
The tragicomic adventure of a 4-year-old boy. While walking around the yard, he accidentally scooped up a tadpole in his palm, which he did not have time to release into the pool. At the dinner table, in front of the whole family, a tadpole fell out of his palm. Family members in horror tried to destroy the poor tadpole, but the boy was smart and he managed to bring the tadpole back to the pool. It was his first lesson in responsibility for the life of a defenseless creature.
Selected festival history
2023
  • International Animation Festival in AJAY, Peru (participant of the competition program)
  • Visualis Film Festival (participant of the competition program)
Kuanysh Nagyz
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Kuanysh Nagyz is the author of the script, the director of photography, the production designer. Born on 12/27/1986. Education: 2005-2009. "Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T. K. Zhurgenov" Specialty "animation director". Bachelor

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
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2022 - TAIKAZAN HIKAYASHI
2021 - Transformer TULPAR
2020 - Сities and children
2019 - MY NAME IS Lamb
2014 - Three prizes