Lakeside Animation

Citizens from a well-fed, fenced-off city can only venture beyond the “safety” wall on the government’s official train system. A team of investigative reporters set out to explore what’s beyond this region, but instead discover a horrifying secret no one thought possible.

In a cruel turn of fate, Mac, a high-end necktie, is thrown in the trash. There he meets others in a similar predicament: a broken vase, an air freshener bottle, a boot with gum stuck on its sole, and a spool of thread down to her last bit of thread. Mac believes that he is better than this riff-raff and dreams of regaining his former life. The others want to reach a place called Paradise, thinking that's where they can make their wishes come true-and if you're stuck in a dumpster, you probably have something to wish for.

On New Years Eve, Investigator Oleg is asked to check out a case at his own apartment building where he discovers Santa Claus has been looking for him in this mind bending animation.

Two friends grapple with mortality as they are confronted with a dying pet ferret.

A gloomy and silent undertaker doesn’t have much of a laugh. One day he makes a joke and invites his dead clients to a housewarming party. The joke turns out to be his last one.

Set in a suffocating over-commercialized future, a young boy's desire for success and status leads him into a terrifying and deadly new reality through the lens of a mysterious VR game. His desperate father must now race against both time and technology to save his dying son. But the boy is the only one who can save himself, and he must do it before becoming another faceless pawn of the Forest King. Adapted from the poem "The Forest Tsar" written in 1818 by Vasiliy Zhukovsky.