A sexy Slavic Firebird guides viewers through the hidden queer world of a small Ukrainian city.
Anastazja Naumenko graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Animation Department in 2019 and after a few years’ break, she continued her studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She recently finished her second film Can you hear me?, which is followed by Square Eyes and currently waiting for a premiere. Her previous film We hope you won’t need to come back was screened at over 25 festivals, including the Warsaw Film Festival, FilmFest Dresden, London International Animation Festival, Kaboom Animation Festival, and won an Audience Award at REX Animation Film Festival and Best Thematic Film Award at Animation Bucharest International Film Festival. Previously she was also a participant in the Visegrád in Short(s) program for animation and film directors.
Maks Piłasiewicz has been working for over 10 years in various areas of the film industry – from film festivals, through one of the leading European sales agents (Films Boutique), in the implementation and production of a training program for film talents (directors and screenwriters), to work in film development and production at one of the most important animation studios in Poland (Animoon). He has been working at Animoon for almost 4 years, where he served in different positions and worked on different formats of animation films.