Little Wings, A Story of Hope short film

On the 15th of December digital design and communications agency AKQA presented Little Wings, the real story of Carol of the Bells, working alongside Mariia and Rodion Shub, two Ukrainians temporarily displaced to the UK and Canada and featuring Kyiv’s Children’s Choir Shchedryk. For out of winter’s darkness will always come spring’s light. From the dedicated website:

Little Wings is the story of Shchedryk, known by many as the popular holiday song Carol of the Bells, but originally written by Mykola Leontovych over one hundred years ago as a traditional Ukrainian folk song heralding the coming of spring. Shchedryk’s original well-wishing lyrics tell the tale of a swallow flying between households, proclaiming the plentiful year that the family will have. Accompanied by the Shchedryk melody, Little Wings follows a lonesome swallow’s adventure to guide carol singers to a family in need of renewed hope.

Kyiv Type Foundry supported the project with two of its typefaces: KTF Compact is used for the main title. The film titles as well as the text on the website are set in KTF Forma. The poster additionally uses Dinamo’s ABC Diatype Compressed.