#editors pick

The Most, Most, Most, Most (Самый, самый, самый, самый)

Soyuzmultfilm, 1966

Book launch day is a bit like waiting in the wings to go on stage for the biggest show of your life and not knowing what's on the other side of the curtain: full house and rapturous applause, or ringing silence...

Publication Eve A book launch is full of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because, wow, it’s my book! I love it! I can’t wait for other people to read and love it too! Trepidation because, well, you never know what you’re launching into. I’ve come to think of publication as like a huge stage show: months of prep, costume tryouts, rehearsals, sending out invitations. Then you’re in your…

Polcan and Shavka (Полкан и Шавка)

Puss in Boots (Кот в сапогах)

Soyuzmultfilm, 1968

How the Goat Held the Earth (Как козлик землю держал)

There Once Was a Dog (Жил-был пёс)

Soyuzmultfilm, 1982

The Speaking Hands of Travancore (Говорящие руки Траванкора)

Soyuzmultfilm, 1981

The story of the Indian dance of Kathakali from Travancore, and the Hindu myths/stories associated with it.

Niko and Nikora (ნიკო და ნიკორა / Нико и Никора)

Georgia Film, 1954