Watch Playing With Dolls (2025) Official Trailer

The film is an exploration of the world of contemporary Russian puppet animation through the prism of the experience of the famous artist Marina Kurchevskaya, director Stanislav Sokolov, VGIK students and students of the children's animation studio. The viewer will learn about the complexities and enchanting moments of creating puppets, about creative secrets and unique approaches to art that has continued to amaze with its liveliness and expressiveness for over a century. This film is about the magic of creativity, which inspires recognized masters and young enthusiasts to prefer puppets to all other techniques and delight the viewer with genuine masterpieces of "hand-made" animation.