I Died in Irpin
On the morning of 24 February, my boyfriend and I decided to travel from Kyiv to Irpin to see his parents. It is hard for me to recall the events of those days. My mind blocks and minimizes all the memories, it erases them, but the only thing I know for certain is that every day everything rapidly became worse.
- Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Ukraine
- 2024, 11 min
- Director: Anastasiia Falileieva
- Director of photography: Anastasiia Falileieva
- Screenplay: Anastasiia Falileieva
- Music: Petr Marek
- Sound: Petr Marek
- Art Director: Anastasiia Falileieva
- Coproduction: Artychoke
- Producer: Martin Vandas, Marcela Vrátilová
- Production: MAURFILM
Anastasiia Falileieva
Anastasiia Falileieva was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, in 2000. She studied stop-motion animation and directing at the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television. Falileieva, who has directed the shorts Until It Turns Black (2018), Tiger Is Strolling Around (2020), Papier Mache (2021), Patron the Dog (2022–2024), and I Died in Irpin (2024), is one of just a few stop-motion professionals left in the Ukrainian industry.