A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a seaside village, suffering from very strong wind. Life is hard in a small village on the coast, mainly because of the unfeasibly high winds that scrape the coastline. Ivan Maximov's films are always a pleasure to watch, and Wind Along the Coast is no exception. Ivan Maximov is a well known Russian animator. Upon graduating from the Advanced Filmmaking and Scriptwriting Course in 1988 (A. Khrjanovsky/V. Ygarov) he produced a number of animated films which earned him international attention. His diploma film 5/4 won many awards at festivals in Russia, Germany, Italy and Hungary. In an interview, Maximov has claimed to seek inspiration for his films in "good music, some good pictures or characters, an internal sense of sound-picture harmony or of the harmony of my own synthesized world, which is only one of the connections linking my different films. I look out at the world from a small window and show you here what I see there. I always justify myself by saying that my style is a chronicle, a piece of life which doesn't have an ending. When making Wind along the coast I was not interested in inventing the film's end and finishing with a formal finale - well this is an end. I just see a girl with a hare leaving and don't know what happens to them later on..."