My Love

My Love (Моя любовь, 2006) is an animated melodrama to watch online on iFILM, directed by Alexander Petrov — the Russian animator who picked up the Oscar for his short The Old Man and the Sea. A Russian–Japanese co-production, the 26-minute film is built on Petrov's signature method: oil paint applied directly to glass, one frame at a time.

Set in nineteenth-century merchant Moscow, the story follows sixteen-year-old schoolboy Anton as he falls for two very different women at once — one a dream, one painfully real. Voice cast includes Sergei Garmash, Nina Ruslanova, and Yevgenia Kryukova. Petrov does not just animate a coming-of-age story; each frame here is closer to a painting that lives for a split second, and the effect reads less as technique than as the emotional texture of the boy's inner world. Watch My Love (2006) online on iFILM.