All works of moving image are a result of the author’s vision. If a recorded documentary presents a certain form of cinematic manipulation, an anidoc (commonly used abbreviation of the term ‘animated documentary’) is just another type of such interpretation of reality. In its animated form, whether it’d be a drawing, stop-motion or something else, the re-imagination of the corporeal world in these anidocs is clear to the audience and their made-up imagery create strong connections to the tangible space. Cross-national conflicts are explored through the poetic lens of their inanimate bystanders. A prophetic story of a Russian immigrant is retold in her own drawings. A food industry’s incompetence is exposed in a disturbing visual aftermath. Pains of both the past and the present are revisited. It’s colourful, it’s animated, but it’s all so real.