Anna Budanova, who won the Grand Prix at New Chitose last year with her film Among the Black Waves, now became a representative figure in contemporary animation scene in Russia, together with the debut film The Wound. Her films remind us of traditional Russian animation whose strong point is hand-drawing graphics that have a human touch but her style has coolness in her storytelling? How has been her animation style formed? Together with Budanova’s past works, the program shows animation works that strongly influenced her. After screening, the filmmaker talks about the secrets of her works.