[18] The story begins with a flashback about a magical tree called the Source of Life inside the large and ancient Enchanted Forest.

The human was the owner of a sawmill and he begged Lesh, the current guardian of the forest, to give him a drop of water from the Source of Life to save his dying newborn daughter.

Feeling pity, Lesh gave the drop to the sawmill owner, but then, he returned with an army of humans to take all the power for himself.

In the present day, a virtuous nymph named Mavka wakes up from her winter sleep and awakens every living creature in the Forest, along with her noisy friend, Hush, and her kitty-frog companion, Swampy.

Meanwhile, in a human village located near the Enchanted Forest, a woman named Kylina arrives and introduces herself as the now adult daughter of and heiress to the sawmill owner.

She proposes a job to the villagers: to go into the Dark Mountain for a huge sum of money, but they refuse due to believing there are evil spirits in the woods.

Mavka allows Lukas to escape and gives him a drop from the Source of Life tree to cure his uncle, but he doesn't have time to play his music for her as he had promised.

Seizing the opportunity, Kylina locks Lukas away in the mansion's basement and turns the villagers against Mavka, but Lesh saves her.

Lesh tells Mavka the story of what had happened many years before, and how he once used the Spark of Rage, a pyrokinetic power bestowed on him by the Supreme Spirit of Fire, the One Who Sits in the Rock, which allowed him to defeat the sawmill owner's army.

Kylina made her husband lie about their "daughter" being ill and also that she was the mastermind behind the first battle years ago due to her selfish desire for immortality and eternal beauty.

Kylina then tricks Mavka into thinking Lukas betrayed her by taking advantage of her kindness and selling the Source of Life's location for money.

Mavka, sad with regret, summons the One Who Sits in the Rock to bestow her with the Spark of Rage, promising to pay the price with her life.

The One Who Sits in the Rock reaffirms that the Spirits made the right choice in choosing Mavka as the Guardian for she bridged the gap between the humans and the forest dwellers, but since she offered to pay the price with her life, she must remain in the Void for all of eternity.

Mavka and Lukas kiss as they reaffirm their love and the villagers and the forest dwellers agree to stop fighting and make peace.

[24] In September 2015, the press service of the "Film.UA Group" company claimed about the beginning of the production of the animated film on the basis of the classic writing "The Forest Song" by Lesia Ukrainka.

At the beginning of work the creators were willing to adapt "The Forest Song" to the family animation, make the happy end in it and to raise current topics, such as ecological issues.

In March 2017, the producers of "Film.UA Group" and "Animagrad" took the first international pitching of Mavka: The Forest Song in one of the biggest animation forums in Europe, “Cartoon Movie”.

During the traditional survey within the forum, a lot of participants called the Mavka: The Forest Song pitch the best in the scope of 50 projects.

In the opinion of Christian Koskinin, the art director of the animated film, the development of Mavka’s depiction lasted 3 years, starting from the idea.

The "3beep" company helped organize the scoring technical aspect: in collaboration with the “Postmodern” studio they created the recording system with remote access.

[26] Ukrainian: Коли аніматик і базовий арт узгоджені, до роботи долучаються різні виробничі департаменти: створення 3D-асетів, виробництво лейаутів, look-development, анімація, візуальні ефекти, симуляція, рендер, композитинг.

Despite the hard military conditions, the film creators announced that the project would be finished in accordance with the pre-war plan, in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Mavka’s winter image was shown there together with the soundtrack “Mova Vitru” (”Song of the Wind”) by Khrystyna Soloviy and Artem Pyvovarov played there.

The film screening rights for showing the movie in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa were acquired by MENA company, which is a sub-distributor of Walt Disney Studios.

ACME Film was a distributor in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Cinemundo – in Portugal, Vertical – in Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, and Blitz company acquired rights for showing the movie within the territory of Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

[45] The production team recreated authentic dance and ceremonial elements with the help of experts from the Ivan Honchar Museum National Center for Folk Culture.

[46][47] Artem Pyvovarov and Khrystyna Soloviy presented the video clip of the movie's main soundtrack – "Mova Vitru" ("Song of the Wind")to the Valentine's Day in February 2023.

The team consisted of: the symphonic orchestra “Kyiv Virtuosos”, Oksana Mukha and Maksym Berezhniuk, and also Italians Dario Vero, Fabio Patriniani, Federico Solacco, Barbad Bayat and Fabricio De Karolis.

[56] After seven years of production, Mavka: The Forest Song premiered in Ukraine on March 2, 2023, and set box office records in the country with its opening, beating out Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) with 189,048 admissions.

[69] Release dates for Canada, Latin America, South Korea, Mongolia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other countries are expected to be announced at a later time.