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Down the Hatch

2026 · 8 min

A quiet, sad animated short that makes you feel a child's helplessness as a parent slips away into addiction.

Directed by: Alexandra Lukina
Genres: Animation

Overview: The drama of a girl whose mother began to live in a wine bottle.
How it feels: Measured and needs your attention.
About: Addiction, family, parenthood, isolation
Content: No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Directed by: Alexandra Lukina
Genres: Animation

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: addiction
family
parenthood
isolation
grief
Places: home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	0
Tension	4
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Details

Genres: animation
Directed by: Alexandra Lukina
Written by: Alexandra Lukina
Music: Alexey Prosvirnin
Runtime: 8 min
Country: Russia
Languages: Russian

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