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An action-packed necromantic animated stop-motion love triangle involving a Rocker Boy, a Gothic Girl, and his dead ex-girlfriend set in the middle of a zombie apocalypse during an alien invasion!
When Tom lost his girlfriend BB to a tragic accident on prom night, the police suspected him, his family shunned him, his friends blamed him—or they would have, if he’d had any. Now he writes death metal love songs by BB’s grave – until his restless solitude is shattered when space aliens invade Earth and turn the dead into an army of zombie killers. Battling to save BB from becoming a puppet to alien masters and his own desire to resurrect his lost love, Tom has to dodge bullets, legions of zombies, aliens, death-rays, and global apocalypse. This highly original festival-award-winning film is the first of its kind to feature the animation of puppets-and-hands in the same style that child-sized toy puppeteers have done in toy commercials over the past two decades.
23-year-old student Alyona returns from Moscow to Yakutsk after learning that her mother has gone missing. Alyona begins to investigate the disappearance, and the trail leads her to a small remote village named Symyr. She travels to Symyr in search of her mother, only to discover that there are evil spirits roaming the land.
Director Stepan Burnashev crafts an eerie slower-burning psychological thriller, based on Ayi faith, folklore and local legends of spirits. Using the stunning Siberian countryside vistas as a backdrop, this beautifully shot Yakuti film is unsettling - Combining a contemporary visual style with age-old legends.
The film is presented in it's original Yakut language, with hard-coded English subtitles.
