The Cloud Collector

The Cloud Collector (1964) is a short family film you can watch online — a gentle nineteen-minute fable from Soviet children's cinema, directed by Aleksandr Igishev. At its heart is a small dreamer named Malyavkin, a boy who can spend hours staring at the sky.

To him the clouds are alive. Some look like elephants, most like harmless little hares that now and then drift down to earth and take the shape of everyday things. Befriending them is easy; the harder part is shielding such odd companions from grown-ups who never bother to look up. Quiet and almost wordless, this is a small sketch about a child's imagination, made for anyone who treasures brief, kind, unhurried cinema. Stream The Cloud Collector (1964) online on iFILM.