Alina Yklymova
Alina Yklymova is a German-Turkmen filmmaker and a graduate of the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. She was supported by the Norbert Janssen Foundation’s grant for emerging filmmakers, took part in the Into the Wild mentoring programme for women directors, received the Deutschlandstipendium for outstanding artistic and social achievement, and participated in the X3 Spaces Residency, Storytelling Against Disinformation in the Post-East Context. During her studies, she worked with Béla Tarr, Hubert Sauper, Thomas Schadt, Christian Schwochow, Nora Fingscheidt and Maren Ade, among others. Her short films have screened internationally, including at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival, IN THE PALACE, and Shorts Trieste and have received the Best Film Award at filmreif!, the DACHfilmzeit Innovation Award and a Special Jury Mention at the Düsseldorf Film Festival. Her work combines offbeat humour with emotional depth and a precise eye for human contradiction. At the centre of her films are characters whose desire, pain and inner abysses become visible where the absurd breaks into everyday life. MATRÖSHKI is her fiction feature debut.
Filmography:
2026 MATRÖSHKI – feature film (in post-production) – writer & director, Schiwagofilm / Film Academy Baden-Württemberg / SWR / WDR / HR, funded by MFG and HessenFilm
2022 Störenfrieda – short fiction film, 25 min. – director, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in co-production with ARTE/SWR, Nominated for Best Mid-Length Film at the 43rd Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival (2022), Winner of Best Film at Das Bundesfestival junger Film (2022), Winner of the DACH-Filmzeit Innovation Award at Filmzeit Kaufbeuren (2022), Special Mention at Düsseldorf Film Festival (2022)
2022 Kurschatten – short fiction film, 8 min. – director, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in collaboration with La Fémis Paris and in co-production with ARTE/SWR as part of the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris training programme, World premiere at the 43rd Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival
2020 Muha – short fiction film, 22 min. – writer & director, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Nominated for Best Screenplay at the Watersprite Film Festival (2020)
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