Natalia Mirzoyan
“This drawing is related to a time when there were not so many wars in the world. We had a house in the woods, and it was the most peaceful and calm place in the world. Now I remember it as a dream.”
Natalia Mirzoyan is an animation director and artist based in Estonia, originally from Yerevan, Armenia. She holds a Master’s degree in Animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). Her films, including My Childhood Mystery Tree (2009), Chinti (2012), Five Minutes to Sea (2018), and Merry Grandmass (2020), have been selected for numerous prestigious festivals such as Berlinale, Annecy, Zagreb, and Hiroshima, earning her multiple awards. Winter in March (2025) is her first puppet animation film. Natalia works with a range of techniques, from hand-drawn animation to stop-motion. In addition to her work in animation, she is also an artist, illustrator, and sketcher. She has participated in several group exhibitions and held three solo exhibitions.
Untitled, mixed media on paper (42×29,7cm)