On March 2, the animated film " Forest song" The pre-premiere screening was traditionally held in Lviv, where orphans and representatives of the Soldiers' Mothers Foundation were invited to the first screening of the most expensive Ukrainian cartoon, Goskino reports..

The premiere screening on the first day of spring was held at the Oscar cinema in the capital.

“I didn’t know how complicated the plot would be, dramatic: it’s about life and death, about love, friendship, interaction, anger, rage,” commented Oleg Skrypka, who voiced the Spirit of Nature — That Which.

This is how Lesya Ukrainka herself recalled what became the impetus for writing the work (she created the play in 10 days during treatment in Kutaisi. At the beginning of 1912, the writer noted in a letter to her sister Olga:.

" And then I have long “kept that Mavka in my mind”, ever since you told me something about Mavok in Zhaboritsa, how we walked through some forest with small, but very plentiful trees. Then, in Kolodyazhny, on a moonlit night, I ran alone into the forest (you didn’t know that), and there I waited for Mavka to appear to me.. And over Nechyomny (lake) she seemed to me how we spent the night there - remember - at Uncle Lev Skulinsky. Apparently, I should have written it sometime, but now for some reason the “right time” has come - I myself don’t understand why. I was fascinated by this image for the whole century "