The last film to represent the country at the Oscars before “Boxballet” was an artful and grim portrait of contemporary Russia, “Loveless” (2017), directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev.
Russia won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1999 with Alexander Petrov’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” “Unclenching the Fists,” Kira Kovalenko’s drama set in an industrial town in North Ossetia, didn’t make Oscar shortlist for Best International Feature Film, despite winning the prize Un Certain Regard at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Russian feature films didn’t receive any nominations this year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its 2022 Oscar nominees Tuesday. "Boxballet," which is Dyakov’s fifth animated film, has already won the IKAR National Animation Award for Best Short film.
The film was produced by the CTB Film Company and Melnitsa Animation Studio. “Boxballet,” an eccentric, 2D-animated short, tells an unlikely love story between boorish boxer named Yevgeny and graceful ballerina named Olga set against the backdrop of the August 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union, when the ballet “Swan Lake” was played in a loop on all the country’s television channels.
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