There Will Come Soft Rains

There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) is a Soviet animated science-fiction short you can watch online on iFILM. Ten minutes, one empty house, and a machine that keeps serving a family that no longer exists.

The automated home runs its daily routine to the second. It cooks breakfast, lays out the table, calls for the people who live there. Nobody answers — all that remains of the family is a set of scorched shadows burned onto an outside wall. The house cannot grasp what happened and goes on caring for the dead. Adapted from Ray Bradbury's story and directed by Nazim Tulakhodzhayev, the film carries Aleksei Konsovsky's narration over its quiet, doomed rooms.

The short turns a single page of Bradbury into a cold visual parable about nuclear war and machines that outlive their makers. There is no spoken lesson, just the rhythm of an empty life going through the motions. The ending, where the house itself becomes the victim, lands hard. Stream There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) online on iFILM.