Mavka: The Forest Song

Mavka: The Forest Song (2023)

Мавка: Лісова пісня

Mavka, a Soul of the Forest, faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as Guardian of the Heart of the Forest when she falls for a human, a talented young musician named Lukas.

Date of release
2023-03-02
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (869)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director
Oleh Malamuzh, Oleksandra Ruban

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Forest Song

Mavka: The Forest Song is an independently-made Ukrainian 3D-animated fantasy film. It was created in 2023 by the Animagrad film studio. Based on Lesya Ukrainka's play, The Forest Song, it portrays characters from Slavic and Ukrainian folk mythology. Oleksandra Ruban and Oleh Malamuzh directed the film.

Production

The first idea to create the animated film on the basis of The Forest Song, a play by Lesya Ukrainka, appeared in 2014. The producer Iryna Kostiuk mentioned that Serhiy Sozanovskiy, the co-founder of the company Film.UA, was one of the people who proposed it.

The official brief was written in 2014. Until 2015 there was only the selection process of screenwriters' applications.

In September 2015, the press service of the Film.UA claimed about the beginning of the production of the animated film on the basis of the classic writing "The Forest Song" by Lesia Ukrainka. At the beginning of work the creators were willing to adapt "The Forest Song" to the family animation, make the happy end in it and to raise current topics, such as ecological issues.

The first teaser of the project was shown in 2017. In March 2017, the producers of "Film.UA Group" and "Animagrad" took the first international pitching of Mavka: The Forest Song in one of the biggest animation forums in Europe, "Cartoon Movie". It took place in Bordeux, France, and Ukraine was represented there for the first time.

In 2018, the process of creating 2D-animatics started and it lasted until the end of 2019.

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