Natalia Fatikh

Natalia Fatikh is a Russian animation director, production designer and animator. Born in Sverdlovsk, she graduated from the Diaghilev Lyceum of Arts in Yekaterinburg in 2002 and in 2010 from the Department of Graphics and Animation of the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts (workshop of O. L. Cherkasova). She worked as an animator on films including Snegur, Mouse and Fox and Letter, and as production designer of Poor Sharik, before making her directing debut with Sparrow Klyuev (2013), part of the Green Apple anthology. Her later films as director, which she also writes and designs, include Bear (2016), Crow (2021) and Zabiyaka (2023).