I died in Irpin / Ja pomerla v Irpenì (Я померла в Ірпені) / Umrla sem v Irpinu
Anastasiia Falileieva (MAUR film, Artichoke, Plastic Bag Films)
2024, Ukraine, Czechia, Slovakia, 11'
On February 24th in the morning my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to see his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and minimizes all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day everything rapidly became worse.
24. februarja zjutraj sva se z fantom odločila, da iz Kijeva odpotujeva v Irpin obiskat njegove starše. Težko si prikličem v spomin kronologijo tistih dni - moj um spomine blokira in zmanjšuje, jih briše - edino, kar vem z gotovostjo, je, da se je vse vsak dan bliskovito slabšalo.
Language: Ukrainian
Recommended for children under 14 years old: No
Technique: Charcoal frame-by-frame animation on paper
Team
Script, Director, Art Designer, Animation: Anastasiia Falileieva
Music: Petr Marek
Dramaturgy: Lucia Kajánková
Production: Marcela Vrátilová, Mira Dittrich
Producers: Alena Vandasová, Martin Vandas (MAUR film, CZ), Juraj Krasnohorský (Artichoke, SK)
Co-producer: Anastasiia Falileieva (Plastic Bag Films, UA)
Anastasiia Falileieva
was born in 2000 in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. She studied stop-motion animation and directing at the Kiyv National I.Karpenko-Kary theatre, cinema and television University. Anastasiia is one of a very few stop-motion professionals left in the Ukrainian industry.
Filmography: I Died in Irpin (2024), Patron the Dog (2022-2024), Papier Mache (2021), Tiger Is Strolling Around (2020), Until It Turns Black (2018).
Find more: @kazadirizza
Director’s statement:
“As Mstyslav Chernov (20 Days in Mariupol, 2023) said: >>I wish I’ve never made this film<<. It was incredibly hard in all senses. But reliving the trauma of occupation and abusive relationships made me stronger. With this film I carry a clear message: The culprit must be punished. It’s always the rapist’s fault. Stop the Russian war against Ukraine.”