I DIED IN IRPIN 

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, animation film artist Anastasiia Falileieva fled with her boyfriend from Kyiv to his parents in Irpin. He is now her ex-boyfriend, as she emphasises in the film. Contrary to their hopes, Irpin quickly became a place of heavy fighting and soon also of war crimes. Anastasiia Falileieva recounts this period of the war as an episode in her life, drawing it picture by picture with charcoal on paper to put together a heavy, animated film with surrealistic ideas interspersed with video clips.