Liliya Timirzyanova

Directing

Liliya Timirzyanova

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

Liliya Timirzyanova is a Tatar filmmaker based between Austria and Greece. Working across fiction, documentary, and essay film, she is drawn to intimate stories shaped by vulnerability, memory, belonging, and the search for meaning in times of personal and political rupture. Her film, ANIMA, premiered at the El Gouna Film Festival in 2021 and subsequently screened internationally. Her hybrid short PERMANENT CENTER OF GRAVITY premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2025 (Giornate degli Autori) as part of the Laguna Film Lab programme. In 2025, she co-founded the Vienna-based film collective YOOL, where she is currently developing, writing and producing fiction, documentary, as well as hybrid …

Known for

Behind the camera

Permanent Center of Gravity poster
10.0

A nighttime journey through the Venetian lagoon, where a traveler encounters children, lovers, fishermen, and solitary figures.

Permanent Center of Gravity

2025

Permanent Center of Gravity poster
10.0

A nighttime journey through the Venetian lagoon, where a traveler encounters children, lovers, fishermen, and solitary figures.

Permanent Center of Gravity

2025

Permanent Center of Gravity poster
10.0

A nighttime journey through the Venetian lagoon, where a traveler encounters children, lovers, fishermen, and solitary figures.

Permanent Center of Gravity

2025

Anima poster
10.0

The conductor (Anna) suddenly leaves the city and silently lives alone in the northern forest on the seashore. Once a chorus girl (Aglaya) comes to her in the hope of returning Anna to her destiny, but remains with her outside of time and boundaries between reality and sleep. Gradually the voice of the chorus girl becomes the inner voice of the silent conductor.

Anima

2021

Anima poster
10.0

The conductor (Anna) suddenly leaves the city and silently lives alone in the northern forest on the seashore. Once a chorus girl (Aglaya) comes to her in the hope of returning Anna to her destiny, but remains with her outside of time and boundaries between reality and sleep. Gradually the voice of the chorus girl becomes the inner voice of the silent conductor.

Anima

2021

Anima poster
10.0

The conductor (Anna) suddenly leaves the city and silently lives alone in the northern forest on the seashore. Once a chorus girl (Aglaya) comes to her in the hope of returning Anna to her destiny, but remains with her outside of time and boundaries between reality and sleep. Gradually the voice of the chorus girl becomes the inner voice of the silent conductor.

Anima

2021