Iryna Tsilyk

Rock Paper Grenade (2024)

A story about relationships between children and adults broken by shaky 1990s in Ukraine. The boy Tymophii befriends a weird man named Felix. He's the veteran of Afghan war, he has PTSD and he loves music. ...

Butterfly Vision (2022)

After spending months as a prisoner in Donbas, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow h ...

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020)

Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of t ...

Tyra (2017)

A 2017 portrait of a paramedic Tyra working on the frontline near Svitlodarsk. There was a well-known road there that was called the road of life: the wounded were taken to the hospital in Bakhmut. Part of the "Invisible Battalion" almanac. ...

Kid (2017)

A short film for "The Invisible Battalion" film almanac. ...

Invisible Battalion (2017)

Military actions have been ongoing in the East of Ukraine for 3 years now. From the first days of war in different hot military action zones women are part of the actions and perform military tasks. However, society still retains an ambiguous, stereotypica ...

Commemoration (2013)

Selling the homestead can be painflully difficult. The hero is forced to confront the past when she tries to complete the sale of her grandfather's house. In the place of her childhood she finds some answers to questions about life. ...

Blue Hour (2008)

Women Who Play (2021)

This a playful film bringing us back to childhood, where everything started. It portraits seven girls who have grown up and who now "rock". They won't be talking about success, but they are the ones who know the rules of the game, and who also know how to ...

My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan (2016)

1917, the Crimea. Fanny Kaplan is blind and out of prison. She starts an affair with her doctor, Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov. which ends unexpectedly when she runs into her first lover: the terrorist who she went to prison for and who is now in the Russian secr ...