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Toshka and his friends. Augmented Reality. Reboot
Тошка и его друзья. Дополненная реальность. Перезагрузка
Year of production: 2023
Production country: Belarus
Production company: UE «National Film Studio «Belarusfilm»
Director: Alexander Lenkin
Producer: Vladimir Karachevski
Screenwriter: Alexander Lenkin, Konstantin Andrushechkin
Composer: Igor Volchek
Production Designer: Tatiana Nagorskaia
Sound Director: Vladimir Ermolenko
Film category: Animation
Rating: 0+
Length: 13 min.
The main character Toshka - our national symbol - is an ordinary potato. He was born under a large potato bush into a family bearing the proud surname Bulbash. Together with her friends, Toshka deftly solves any life situations, which are sometimes unexpected.
Friends play with augmented reality glasses. Carried away by the game and not noticing the difference between virtual and real, children destroy green spaces in the park. Grandfather Bulbash comes to the rescue; he designed a robotic assistant, Robin, whom Toshka and the company must teach to care for the environment in order to correct the consequences of their game. But due to the children's frivolous attitude to what is happening, something went wrong in the first steps of programming, the Robot gets out of control, and instead of putting the park and playground in order, he destroys it even more. How will Toshka and his friends cope with the current situation? As a result, friends still understand that any catastrophe originates within themselves, that it can be avoided if they think about the consequences of their actions in time. You cannot put the virtual above the real, and the game above real life.
Alexander Lenkin
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Born January 16, 1961 in Minsk, Belarus. From 1978 to 1980 he studied at the Moscow Theater School. M. S. Shchepkina. In 1982 he graduated from the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute, acting department. In 1984 he began working at the Belarusfilm film studio as a phase artist. In 1987 he made his debut as an animated film director ("Enlightened Night").

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2021 – "Toshka and his friends. There is contact! (Unitary Enterprise "National Film Studio "Belarusfilm").
2020 – Children's album. "Modest Mussorgsky. Zhuk" (UE "National Film Studio "Belarusfilm" together with LLC "Studio M.I.R" with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation);
2019 – Toshka and his friends. Toshka and the Computer Monster (Unitary Enterprise "National Film Studio "Belarusfilm");
2018 – Toshka and his friends. Toshka rushes to the rescue (Unitary Enterprise "National Film Studio "Belarusfilm");
2017 – Toshka and his friends. Toshka and the heroic deed (Unitary Enterprise "National Film Studio "Belarusfilm").