Liliya Timirzyanova is a Tatar filmmaker based between Vienna and Greece.

Her debut feature film, Anima (2021), screened internationally, received several awards, and had a theatrical release in Russia. Her hybrid short documentary Centro di Gravità Permanente (2025), developed at the Laguna Film Lab, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section.

Between 2022 and 2026, she directed two short fiction films shot in Russia and Cyprus - "Orphic Drift" and "Psyche and Amor" - both scheduled to premiere in 2027.

In 2025, she shot two short documentary films in Greece, currently in post-production.

In the same year, she co-founded YOOL Films, a production company based in Vienna.

Since 2025, she has also been working with the archive of Arik Brauer’s villa, while developing an animated film based on his drawings and sculptures.