Mermaids, beautiful young boys and half-women half-butterflies populate the release slate on Indiepix’s schedule of announced new acquisitions this month, which will begin with Oleg Tchnerny’s lovely black and white short “Ephebes and Courtesans”, a 26-minute expose on the beauty of young men (and women), set in a Parisian cafe. Blending whirling-dervish camera setups with dizzying local beauties, “Ephebes..” is breathtakingly close to walking down the Champs-Elysees with a bottle of good wine in tow. Lev Polyakov’s blockily animated “Morning, Day, Evening, Night. . .And Morning Again” is a bittersweet parody of the impermanence of love: a man falls in love with a half-woman, half-butterfly, only to have her crumble in his arms after making love to her. Anton Trofymov completes this triad of upcoming new releases with the uniquely humorous (and long-awaited) “The Mermaid”, where viewers will get to see what happens when a young man is finally reunited with the mermaid he thinks he’s lost at sea. . .