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I Died in Irpin

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, 2024, 12 minutes, Color, Ukrainian; Turkish captioned, Turkish dubbed, English subtitled


2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; Best Animation, 2024 Ottawa International Animation Festival; Best Script Craft Prize, Ukrainian Film Critics Awards;  Best Animated Film

Director:  Anastasia Falileieva

Screenplay: Anastasia Falileieva
Music: Petr Marek
Producer: Marcela Vrátilová, Mira Dittrich
Production: MAUR film, Artichoke, Plastic Bag Studio

On the morning of 24 February 2022, Anastasia and her fiancé decided to travel from Kyiv to Irpin to visit his parents. Fled away from the attacks in Kyiv, they would end up in the centre of the Battle of Irpin, which went down in history as one of Russia's fiercest attacks. Through a hazy memory, Falileieva portrays the days and hours she hardly recall the chronology of with stop-motion art.