The Best Place in the World

Irina Tarasova
Belarus | 2019 | 13’21 national premiere

A mouseling, upon hearing the tale of a wonderful Granary full of seeds, where mice live without worries, leaves his home in the burrows to find this wondrous place…

Director: Irina Tarasova
Writer: Constantine Andrushechkin
Producer: National film studio Belarus film
Key Cast “Voice”: Ilya Cherepko-Samohvalov, Alexander Pashkevich, Andrey Karako, Alexander Kashperov, Tatyana Rozhavskaya, Alexander Tkachonok
Art Director: Andrey Senkevich, Inga Karashkevich
Music: Alexander Liberzon
Sound: Andrey Chernitskiy, Evgeny Rogozin
Characters, Backgrounds: Anna Emelyanova
Lyrics: Elena Turova
Compositing: Boris Rabtsevic, Andrey Senkevich, Constantine Andrushechkin
Animators: Irina Tarasova, Olga Ptichkina, Svetlana Kovalevskaya, Evgeny Ivanov, Marta Gerashenko, Alexandra Muhomedzyanova, Constantine Andrushechkin, Evgenia Zaharenko, Evgeny Vrublyovsky, Natalya Skomoroh, Elena Sulza, Alexandra Cherkas
Artists: Polina Mitskevich, Pavla Platonova
Editors: Rita Shagray, Ksenia Vilchinskaya-Krzhyzhanovskaya
Production assistant: Ksenia Maryankova

Irina Tarasova

Irina Tarasova was born in 1975 in the city of Murmansk, Russia. She graduated at the Art and Graphics faculty of the State University of Vitebsk. She was a painter and worked as a theatrical art director. Since 2008, she has been working at the Animation Studio of the National Film studio Belarusfilm. She is art director, animator and film director.