Creating a Film in the Genre of Documentary Animation

This project is aimed at creating a short animated documentary film dedicated to the struggles with national self-identifications experienced by a generation of children of Georgian refugees from Abkhazia. The paper covers in detail the development of animated documentaries as a genre, as well as the phenomenon of Third Culture Kids and the specifics of the spatial-temporal concept of home in the perception of temporarily displaced people. The final project is a partially animated documentary film ‘1992 and after’, which combines the stories told in the first person by the refugees about the last day at home and a reflection on life in between several cultures of their children. The plot of the film is revealed through the prism of childhood memories of a girl whose parents were forced to leave their homeland long before she was born. The style of hand-drawn animation corresponds to the idea of the child's perspective. Looking at old photos and child drawings, in a dialogue with her sister, the main character tries to understand her origin and status. Together, these two lines, animated stories about a lost home and the reflections of a Georgian girl who grew up in Moscow and is trying to regain her national identity by immersing herself in the tragic past of her family, form a common outline of the path that the main character goes through in finding herself through trying to answer the question– "where am I from?".