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2026 Tribeca Creators Market Participant / Indiewire

2026 SWR – In Produktion – Tragikomödie um drei Generationen postsowjetischer Frauen mitten in Deutschland


2026 The Spot – Tragikomödie „Matröshki“ im Dreh

2025 X3 Spaces – Residency against Desinformation

2024 Sooner – How did Alina Yklymova find her true calling in filmmaking?

2024 Alina with Michael Achilles, editor of the Edition FABW short story collection Das ist das wert, at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.
2023 – Pitching Matröshki at the Berlinale as part of the INTO THE WILD Mentoring Programme. https://intothewild-mentoring.com/mentees-2023/
2023 Lion Durst (right, co-writer) accepting the Caligari Development Award for Matröshki from Armin Schneider (left), founder of the YTF Young Talent Foundation Berlin.
2023 Alina on stage with ADK acting students during the premiere of the Edition FABW short story collection In der Schwebe, which she directed and moderated at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.
Alina with Michael Achilles, editor of the Edition FABW short story collection In der Schwebe, at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.
Katharina Abel, lead actress of Störenfrieda, accepts the Innovation Award. Norbert Haug presented the cheque for €1,000, donated by VWEW. On the left: jury member Katharina Breinbauer, festival director from Bamberg.

2022 15. Filmzeit Kaufbeuren – Innovationspreis für „Störenfrieda“

2022 SR Talk – Störenfrieda auf dem Max Ophüls Filmfestival

2022 Störenfrieda beim Bundesfestival Junger Film
– Awarded Best Film at filmreif! Bundesfestival junger Film 🙂
43rd Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2022 – Photo call: short film Störenfrieda. Lisa Brunke (writer) and Alina Yklymova (director), from left to right. Photo: Oliver Dietze

2022 SR – Im Wettbewerb: “Matratzen” und “Störenfrieda”

2022 taz – Wieder der Zeit voraus

2022 Testkammer – Störenfrieda

2022 queer.de – Wenn der Vadder in den queeren Safe Space stolpert