ENCHANTING POSTERS FOR 2021 ANIMATED ADVENTURES MAVKA ON UKRAINIAN FOREST FAIRY AND MY SWEET MONSTER ON RUSSIAN PRINCESS VARVARA

     'MAVKA' REVEALS

THE ENCHANTING FOREST QUEEN

Mavka The Forest Song arrives next year

Two upcoming animated projects today: coming from the Ukraine is an animated movie that has been in works for many years and should arrive to cinemas next year. MAVKA based on a drama ‘The Forest Song’ by Lesya Ukrainka, as well on the elements from Slavic mythology, will follow Mavka — a Soul of the Forest and its Warden — who faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when she falls in love with a human — the talented young musician Lukas. The story is about the magical power of love. That kind of love that enables human

A massive line of Mavka merchandise has already been launched in Ukraine, including a whole supermarket designed around the film

nature to find the magic within and reveals abilities and qualities that empower a person to reach beyond possible and to hold against evil and human vice. Nature and its well-being will play one of the significant roles in the setup of the story, and thus, Mavka’s Forest will be inhabited by

Forest lynch will be one of the characters based on endangered species

endangered species of animals and plants to raise awareness about the extinction problem and the loss of natural habitats.The film will also present to the world enchanting Ukrainian and Slavic traditions, rituals, music, locations, ornaments! Oleksandra Ruban is directing.

     'MY SWEET MONSTER'

A PRINCESS AND A BANDIT

My Sweet Monster will arrive Autumn 2021

Also set for next year, September 1st 2021 to be precise, is another animated adventure, but this one coming from neigh- bouring Russia. MY SWEET MON- STER is animated comedy adventure directed by Maxim Volkov for one of our favourite movie companies CTB!  It will be an incredible story about the obstinate princess Varvara, who runs away from the palace, after getting tired of her father – Tsar Elisey's constant admonitions to her. She gets

Maxim Volkov is directing this Russian animated adventure

captured by the forest bandit Buka and turns his life into a mess. The princess tries to bring to the forest her own rules and becomes an object of the bandit’s envy. However, when you get a taste of hatred, you might also taste love too.