Director: Milen Vitanov • Creator: Vera Trajanova & Milen Vitanov
Short film • 2D drawn animation mixed with stop motion • 7:00 min • © Milen Vitanov and ZDF Siebenstein Sendung 2021
The lives of four lively arctic hares take a turn after discovering a strange new creature.
Voice Artists: Metodi Litzev, Vera Trajanova
Screenplay: Vera Trajanova, Milen Vitanov
Directed by: Milen Vitanov
Assistant director: Vera Trajanova
Director of Photography and color grading: Olaf Aue BVK
Editor: Jens Prausnitz
Set Designer and Minisets: Susanna Jerger
Additional Props: Alex Friedrich
Character Design: Milen Vitanov, Marta Andreeva
Animation: Milen Vitanov
Additional Animation: Dalibor Rajninger, Marie Josephine Tucholski
Clean-Up: Milen Vitanov, Samuel Weikopf, Jost Althoff
Sound Design and Mix: Michał Krajczok
Music: Leonard Petersen
Foley artist: Peter Roigk
Stop Motion Camera Consultant: Kathrin Woodtli
Typeface: Lettersoup
Poster Design: Sofia Dimitrova
Soft&Hardware support: Mihail Borisov
Producer Germany: Milen Vitanov, Vera Trajanova
Co-Producer Germany: ZDF - Redaktion Siebenstein
Co-Producer Bulgaria: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova - Activist38
With the support of: FFA German Federal Film Board, Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien and Bulgarian National Film Center
Awards:
Grand Prize for our Best Children's Animation at Rhode Island Film Festival 2020 USA
Gryphon Award - Best Short Film Elements+3 at Giffoni Film Festival 2020 Italy
FRIESE Award at Mo&Friese Film Festival Hamburg 2021 Germany
Best Family Short at Cleveland International Film Festival 2021 USA
Colour Box Audience Award at Flatpack Festival 2021 UK
Best Animation at Feel The Reel Intl Film Festival 2021 UK and Romania
Audience Award - Kids1 at Dresden Film Festival 2021, Germany
Audience Award at Festival du Film d'Animation Pour la Jeunesse de Bourg-en-Bresse 2021, France
Festivals:
MISHOU had great premiere at the Berlin Film Festival BERLINALE in February 2020
Sarajevo Film Festival 2020, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Film Festival Della Lessinia 2020, Italy
Rhode Island Intl. Film Festival 2020, USA
In The Palace 2020 Varna, Bulgaria
SCHLINGEL - Chemnitz 2020, Germany
Festival of Animation Berlin 2020, Germany
Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma - Montreal 2020, Canada
DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 2020
Cork, Cork, Ireland, 2020
Cinanima, Portugal 2020
Animest, Romania 2020
FACETS, Chicago, USA 2020
Giffoni, Italy 2020
Athens Int. Children's Film Festival, Greece 2020
Prisma, Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden 2020
Discovery, Dundee, Scottland 2020
Uppsala Intl Film Festival, Sweden 2020
Minimalen Film festival, Norway 2020
Mo&Friese Children's Film Festival Hamburg, Germany 2020
Festival International du film pour Enfants de Montreal (FIFEM) Canada 2021
Cleveland International Film Festival, USA 2021
Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival, Norway 2021
St. Louis Intl Film Festival, USA 2021
Atlanta Film Festival, USA 2021
MONSTRINHA of Monstra Lisbon, Portugal 2021
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Japan, 2021
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2021
REGARD - International Short Film Festival in Saguenay 2021
ITFS Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart, Germany 2021
Filmfestival Dresden, Germany 2021
PLAY - Lisbon's International Kids Film Festival, Potugal 2021
Huesca International Film Festival, Spain 2021
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2021, Canada
Festival International du Film de Nancy 2021, France
Winter Film Awards New Yourk 2021, USA
Salute Your Shorts Film Festival 2021, USA
Cordillera International Film Festival 2021, USA
Copenhagen Short film Festival 2021, Denmark
Cervino Cine Mountain Festival, 2021, Italy
Bolton Film Festival 2021, UK
Tirana International Film Festival, 2021, Albania
San Jose Film Festival, 2021, USA
Austin Film Festival, 2021, USA
Movie review (in German) at Testkammer
Interview (in German) at Testkammer
Interview (in German) at Unicato