Ravenera / Garvanera (Гарванера) / Krokarjev brlog
Teodor Ralev (NBU New Bulgarian University)
2025, Bulgaria, 09’38’’
In a dark messy burrow, a reclusive raven lives shut off from the outside world – until a spirited nightingale, an opera singer, moves into the floor above, disrupting his carefully kept peace. Their encounter moves the raven's heart.
V temnem, neurejenem brlogu živi samotarski krokar, odrezan od zunanjega sveta - dokler se v nadstropje nad njim ne vseli živahna slavčica, operna pevka, in zmoti njegov skrbno varovani mir. Njuno srečanje krokarju seže do srca.
Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Technique: Puppet animation, Cut-out animation, Paint-on-glass
Team
Script: Teodor Ralev (inspired by Carmen by Geoge Bizet)
Animation: Teodor Ralev, Lilia Aleksandrova, Veselin Damyanov, Viktoria Panova
Music: Soundscapers
Art and Design: Lilia Aleksandrova
Teodor Ralev
began his studies in the Animation Cinema program at New Bulgarian University in 2018. In 2020, he worked as lead animator on the short animated film 8848, directed by Stefan Voyvodov. During this project, he acquired key skills in cutout animation under the camera, which he later applied in the production of Oceania, also directed by Voyvodov. Oceania received the Special Jury Prize at the 17th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna and was selected for the CEE Animation Talents 2022 lineup. In the spring of 2022, he took part in a two-week production of a series of stop-motion commercials for Travel Oregon as an assistant animator, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Zlatin Radev. He later collaborated with Radev again as an assistant animator on a music video for Porter Robinson. He completed his degree in April 2025, successfully defending his graduation film Ravenera, a short cut-out stop motion animation film. Today, Teodor works as a compositing artist at Chase a Cloud Studio, contributing to various projects including The Paper Bear (dir. Arix Zalace, 2025) and Avengers' Holiday Crisis: Hydra's Frosty Ambush.