It was also nominated for Best Animated Short at the 89th Academy Awards . Ushev stated that with 16 films to his credit to date , he had given up hope of ever being nominated for an Oscar because he worried that his films might be " too abstract , too avant garde , too elitist , too dark " for the Academy . He stated that upon hearing the news of his Oscar nomination , he had a strong emotional reaction : " When I heard the name of my film , I just stopped watching , because I fainted ... I cried . At first I laughed and then I cried again . It 's out of control ... . It 's all strange and exciting . " On February 26 , upon the eve of the Oscars , public television in Ushev 's native Bugaria aired a dubbed version of the film , narrated by Teodora Duhovnikova
89th Academy Awards
89th Academy Awards
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