Director,
Writer,
Actor,
Cinematographer,
Production designer,
Producer,
Animator,
Artistic director
Born 1982, USSR (Russia)
 
 
Leonid SHMELKOV
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Леонид ШМЕЛЬКОВ
Leonid CHMELKOV
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2025 - Restlessness (Непокой) [animation, 85 mn]
2020 - With view on the sea (С видом на море) [animation, 12 mn]
2020 - Cucumbers (Огурцы) [animation, 15 mn]
2018 - Lola, a Living Potato (Лола, живая картошка) [animation, 17 mn]
2017 - Pearfall (Грушепад) [animation, 3 mn]
2015 - A very lonely rooster (Очень одинокий петух) [animation, 5.45 mn]
2013 - My Own Personal Moose (Мой личный лось) [animation, 17 mn]
2012 - Hop-Frog (Прыг-Скок) [animation, 5 mn]
2011 - Vezukha! Kit is in Love (Везуха! Китовая любовь) [animation, 5 mn]
2010 - Vezukha. Vse my inoplanetyane na etoy zemle (Везуха. Все мы инопланетяне на этой земле) [animation, 5 mn]
2009 - Dog-walking Ground (Собачья площадка) [animation, 8 mn]
 
Writer
2025 - Restlessness (Непокой) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 85 mn]
2020 - With view on the sea (С видом на море) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 12 mn]
2020 - All Men Should Have Shoes (У всех мужчин должны быть туфли) from Anastasia LISOVETS [animation, 8 mn]
2020 - Cucumbers (Огурцы) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 15 mn]
2018 - Lola, a Living Potato (Лола, живая картошка) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 17 mn]
2017 - Pearfall (Грушепад) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 3 mn]
2015 - A very lonely rooster (Очень одинокий петух) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 5.45 mn]
2013 - My Own Personal Moose (Мой личный лось) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 17 mn]
2012 - Hop-Frog (Прыг-Скок) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 5 mn]
2011 - Vezukha! Kit is in Love (Везуха! Китовая любовь) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 5 mn]
2010 - Vezukha. Vse my inoplanetyane na etoy zemle (Везуха. Все мы инопланетяне на этой земле) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 5 mn]
2009 - Dog-walking Ground (Собачья площадка) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 8 mn]
 
Actor
2013 - My Own Personal Moose (Мой личный лось) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 17 mn]
 
Cinematographer
2025 - Restlessness (Непокой) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 85 mn]
2011 - Vezukha! Kit is in Love (Везуха! Китовая любовь) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 5 mn]
2009 - Dog-walking Ground (Собачья площадка) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 8 mn]
 
Production designer
2025 - Restlessness (Непокой) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 85 mn]
2020 - With view on the sea (С видом на море) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 12 mn]
2020 - Cucumbers (Огурцы) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 15 mn]
2017 - Pearfall (Грушепад) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 3 mn]
2015 - A very lonely rooster (Очень одинокий петух) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 5.45 mn]
2013 - Lucky! Late traveller (Везуха! Путник запоздалый) from Lisa SKVORTSOVA [animation, 5 mn]
2012 - Hop-Frog (Прыг-Скок) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 5 mn]
2011 - Vezukha! Kit is in Love (Везуха! Китовая любовь) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 5 mn]
2010 - Vezukha! Chornye dyry (Везуха! Черные дыры) from Natalya ANTIPOVA [animation, 5 mn]
2009 - Dog-walking Ground (Собачья площадка) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 8 mn]
 
Producer
2020 - With view on the sea (С видом на море) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 12 mn]
2020 - Dogs smell like the sea (Собаки пахнут морем) from Anastasia LISOVETS [animation, 4 mn]
2020 - Second Wednesday of April (Вторая среда апреля) from Svetlana KARAEVA , Mariya PLATONOVA [animation, 3 mn]
 
Animator
2017 - Pearfall (Грушепад) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 3 mn]
2015 - In i Yana. "Zapretnaya yeda" (Ин и Яна. Запретная еда) from Oleg UZHINOV [animation, 11 mn]
2013 - My Own Personal Moose (Мой личный лось) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 17 mn]
 
Artistic director
2018 - Lola, a Living Potato (Лола, живая картошка) from Leonid SHMELKOV [animation, 17 mn]

Other films
2007 - Остановка (Stop)
 
Sites : animator.ru, IMDb
Awards :
Restlessness :
Jury Special Mention, International competition, BCF. The Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2025
Cucumbers :
Best Animation film, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival (SFFFF), San Francisco (USA), 2023
Best Short Film, Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, Suzdal (Russia), 2022
Pearfall :
Best film for children, Film Festival Black Movie, Geneva (Switzerland), 2019
Lola, a Living Potato :
Best Feature Short, Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, Suzdal (Russia), 2019
Best Animation film, "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2019
My Own Personal Moose :
Best Animation film, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Special Prize, International Animated Films Festival "KROK", Kiev (Ukraine), 2015
Special Jury prize, "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2014
Hop-Frog :
Special mention, International Short film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen (Germany), 2013
Vezukha! Kit is in Love :
Best Animation Film from Serial, Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, Suzdal (Russia), 2012
A very lonely rooster :
Grand Prix du Jury d'enfants au Festival d'animation de Seatle
Biography
Born in 1982 in Moscow.
Graduated from the Moscow State University as illustrator (2005), from the school studio of animation films "SHAR" as animation director (2008).
 
Commentaries
- 50 dessins animés ayant marqué l’histoire du cinéma russe et soviétique (vidéos) Maria TOKMACHEVA, 2023, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Суздаль-2019: Анимация разбирается с родителями Павел ШВЕДОВ, 2019, seance.ru