Private Project

The clouds

This is a film about a little girl who believes in miracles, imagines a lot, dreams and loves to draw. Varya lives with her parents and her cat Vasya on a cliff, which offers an incomparable view: the constantly changing sky is unpredictable in its outlines, the sounds of sea waves, the cries of gulls and the singing of birds. The beauty of nature surrounds Varya from day to day. She sees the unusual in everything. And one day, an amazing story happens to her.

  • Nadezda Syachina
    Director
  • Nadezda Syachina
    Writer
  • Nadezda Syachina
    Producer
  • Nadezda Syachina
    Key Cast
    "Varya"
  • Serjo De Lua
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Облака
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 5, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Russian Federation
  • Country of Filming:
    Russian Federation
  • Language:
    English, Russian
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Osaka International Film Festival (OIFF)
    Osaka
    May 29, 2021
    Finalist
  • )||( - Is the First International Short&Symbolic Art Film Festival (ISAFF)
    Saint-Petersburg
    July 15, 2021
    Official selection
  • Festival Internacional de Marbella
    Marbella
    August 22, 2021
    Official selection
  • Filmets Badalona Film Festival
    Barcelona
    October 22, 2021
    Official selection
  • FARCUME: Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Faro
    Faro
    August 27, 2021
    Official selection
  • Viffka Online and Offline International Film Festival
    Haifa
    Израиль
    June 10, 2022
    Nominee
  • Druk International Film Festival
    Paro
    August 20, 2021
    Winner
  • Genesis International Film Festival
    Moscow
    September 4, 2021
    Russian premiere
    Official selection
  • Lima Web Fest
    Lima
    September 14, 2021
    Semi-Finalist
  • FESTIVAL DE CINE INFANTIL CHURUMBELA 2021

    October 8, 2021
    Official selection
  • Arctic International Film Festival "Golden Raven"

    October 9, 2021
    special screening
  • The Continental Film Festival
    Munich
    October 10, 2021
    Nominee
  • INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL • ZILANT - 2021
    KAZAN
    November 6, 2021
    Winner
  • ADIFF - Actor&Director Awards
    Saint-Petersburg
    October 5, 2021
    Honorable Mention
  • Vienna International Film Awards
    Vienna
    October 30, 2021
    Official selection
  • LIFFT INDIA FILMOTSAV & AWARDS-World Cine Fest 2021

    December 25, 2021
    Official selection
  • International Film and Video Festival «Catharsis»

    December 10, 2021
    Semi-Finalist
  • Laurus Film Festival

    February 1, 2022
    Official selection
  • BUEIFF CHANNEL
    Buenos Aires
    Аргентина
    August 15, 2022
    Official selection
  • Festival RNAB
    Sao Paulo
    Бразилия
    March 25, 2022
    Semi-Finalist
Director Biography - Nadezda Syachina

Nadezda Syachina was born in Russia in the city of Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod region.
She is a member of the Union of Russian Artists, the International Association of Designers VATIKAM, the Union of Watercolorists of Russia.
In 2011, she graduated from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov (VGIK) with a degree in animation.
From 2014 to 2017, she worked as a chief artist, as well as a developer of children's educational board games in St. Petersburg.

Has awards:
* Winner of the 1st degree "Master of the Year" in the category "Game Design" 2015. International Association of Designers "VATIKAM".
* Winner of the 1st degree "Master of the Year" in the category "Game Design" 2016. International Association of Designers "VATIKAM".
* Winner of the international competition "Best Works" in 2018
• International Association of Designers "VATIKAM".
* Winner of the international competition "Best works of 2019" of the International Association of Designers "VATIKAM".
* Finalist of the International Artist Grand Prize Competition of 2020 Art Revolution Taipei. Taiwan
* Finalist of the International Artist Grand Prize Competition of 2021 Art Revolution Taipei. Taiwan
* Winner of the international competition of pedagogical skills "Teacher's online laboratory of Fishermen of the Foundation" in the direction of "Teaching animation courses". Created a cartoon that became the winner in the category "Best Screenplay", 2020
* Awarded the" Special Prize " of the Mellow Art Award 2020
* Finalist of the first stage of the competition of the Award "For the Benefit of the World" in the category "Animation". Animated film "Fairy Leia", dir. Nadezda Syachina, 2021

The artist's paintings are in the collections of different countries - Russia, China, Germany, Spain, Italy, USA, Estonia and Ukraine.

Since 2011, Nadezda has held annual solo exhibitions. Works in the technique of watercolors and graphics, oil painting, acrylic.
She has participated in many competitions, festivals and exhibitions, such as:
* Special Competition Of Russian Short Cartoons Mult OLIMP (Cartoon Olimp) 2013,
* Annual open international Festival of multimedia creativity "Multimatograph" 2013,
* International Festival of Youth Short Films "VISION" 2013,
2013 Exhibition of paintings and graphics "Black Romanticism" in the framework of the cultural and historical project " Lenora. The return of the ballad." (Pushkin, St. Petersburg)
Summer 2011-personal exhibition of photographs "Flowers", Vyksa
Autumn 2011-personal exhibition of sisters Nadezhda and Nina Syachin "From reality to dreams" at the Batashev Hotel, Vyksa
Summer 2012-personal exhibition "Illustrations to S. Kozlov's Fairy Tales" at the History Museum of JSC "VMZ", Vyksa
Spring 2013-personal exhibition "Sea-sea, bottomless world..." at the Batashev Hotel, Vyksa
Summer 2013-personal exhibition "The Birth of the cartoon" in the Museum of the History of JSC "VMZ", Vyksa
Autumn 2013-participant of the exhibition of paintings and graphics "Black Romanticism" In the framework of the cultural and historical project " Lenora. The Return of the Ballad", Pushkin
Spring 2014-participant of the exhibition of young artists-authors of illustrations for the musical "Circus of Fate" based on the novella by Oleg Roy. (Tambov)
Autumn 2014-participant of the 7th exhibition " Youth of St. Petersburg. The Beginning", St. Petersburg
Spring 2017-participant of the exhibition "Youth of St. Petersburg" in the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg.
Winter 2019-personal exhibition "Music of the Heart" at the Batashev Hotel, Vyksa
Summer 2019-participant of the exhibition "When today becomes tomorrow" in the Art space "Ex Libris", Vyksa
Summer 2019-personal exhibition "From graphics to acrylics" at the Batashev Hotel, Vyksa
Autumn 2019-participant of the All-Russian exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists "The Charming Power of Creativity", St. Petersburg
Autumn 2019-participant of the Festival of Creativity"On the Waves", St. Petersburg
Autumn 2019-participant of the Exhibition-festival "THE MAGIC SECRET OF BEAUTY",", St. Petersburg
Autumn 2019-participant of the Exhibition "70 years of Friendship of peoples". This event is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and Russia, as well as the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
Autumn 2019-participant of the Exhibition of Russian Art "Woman" in Lima, Peru.
Winter 2020-personal exhibition "Watercolour graphics: horses and landscapes", Vyksa MBUK CBS.
Spring 2020 - online graphics exhibition. The exhibition is organized by the Union of Russian Artists (SRH).
Summer 2020-participant of the International Art Fair Art Revolution Taipei. Taiwan

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Director Statement

The animated film "Clouds" was shot in the technique of hand-drawn layering with further refinement in the graphic editor. The animation in the film is made in a computer program (Photoshop) by combining individual details drawn on paper and translated into digital format. Only one person worked on the film - Nadezda Syachina. The film took about 2 months to make.