Alina Yklymova

Original title: Muha
Short film | Fiction | Surrealist drama | 23 min.
Germany
Languages: Russian, German
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Muha lives on the margins: welfare, managed loneliness, medication for something that has no name. He measures his days in steps and small attempts at exercise. Each week, he places numbers at a kiosk, holding on to the hope of reunion, of a second beginning with his son.

When the numbers finally hit, the story that has kept him going begins to collapse. He cannot bring his son back. Not after what happened: Muha betrayed him in order to reach the “free world” – a world that now feels like a prison.

MUHA is a surrealist drama about loss and guilt.

Cast: Dr. Pavel Klering, Janina Elkin, Richard Manualpillai, Harry Schäfer, Marion Alessandra Becker, Peer Blank, Jörn Kolpe

Producers: Maite Bengsch, Lukas Reiter

Written & Directed by: Alina Yklymova
Cinematography: Holger Enck
Production Design: Nele Seifert
Editing: Lukas Reiter

Festivals:
2021 Moscow Indie Film Festival (Moskau, RU)
2021 Watersprite Film Festival (Cambridge, UK)
– nominated for the Best Script
2025 X3 Spaces Creative Fest 2025 (Berlin, DE)