Ivan Maximov

An old man named Zivojin Markovic, living in a remote village prays for his grandson Cane to go to the city, sell his cow and bring back a wife. In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Cane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather. He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo, and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate Zivojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.

The second almanac of the author's films based on pies-poems. The theme of this collection is life and death.

What is the philosophical meaning of the film? The moon falls into a meat grinder, whimsical, but typically Maximovian creatures, entering or not entering into some kind of relationship, are formed from moon stuffing, and eventually, after many transformations, the dog turns out to be patiently waiting for this on the "other edge" of the screen, gets a bone.

What is the philosophical meaning of the film? The moon falls into a meat grinder, whimsical, but typically Maximovian creatures, entering or not entering into some kind of relationship, are formed from moon stuffing, and eventually, after many transformations, the dog turns out to be patiently waiting for this on the "other edge" of the screen, gets a bone.

Short animations from renouned authors dedicated to man-woman relationships.

Seven days of destruction of the Biblical world.

Everyone loves pies. Poetry is no exception. In 2003, the world's first "pie rhyme" was written, which caused a whole wave of pie-making. Thanks to the unpretentious poetic form and the fundamental denial of spelling, every fool can write a pie. As it turned out, making a cartoon on a pie is also. With pride and categorical denial of any meaning, we present the world's first animated pie almanac.

Hooligan manipulations with paintings by the artist Alexander Wojciechowski.

Hooligan manipulations with paintings by the artist Alexander Wojciechowski.

A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.

A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.

Bestiary is an animated collection of poems-pies by the poet Igor Melnikov. The main idea runs through all the poems: people are a bit of animals in both good and bad senses. The leitmotif of this can serve as a pie: I walk with a monster in my arms and my monsters are waiting for me at home and look out the window and breathe on the glass

The film is about the behavior of people in a state of boring expectation.

The film is about the behavior of people in a state of boring expectation.

Morning outflow and evening inflow of the sea change a tide of life of the coastal small town.

Morning outflow and evening inflow of the sea change a tide of life of the coastal small town.

Two animated shorts, "Waiting for the Balloon" and "The Perfect Hole".

Film by Ivan Maksimov, music by J.S.Bach, starring Divertissement Chamber Orchestra.

Film by Ivan Maksimov, music by J.S.Bach, starring Divertissement Chamber Orchestra.

A parable about the fragility of relationships. Love is sought, found, tested, lost...

A parable about the fragility of relationships. Love is sought, found, tested, lost...

A surreal film with a Freudian theme.

A surreal film with a Freudian theme.

“Bolero” by Ravell is expressed in the mouvements of surrealistic paintings and in the rhythm of the film. This short animation won Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film.

“Bolero” by Ravell is expressed in the mouvements of surrealistic paintings and in the rhythm of the film. This short animation won Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film.