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2026 Tribeca Creators Market Participant / Indiewire

Matröshki was selected for the Tribeca Creators Market.

2025 SWR – “Matröshki” – In Produktion

Feature tragicomedy Matröshki is in production, a story about three generations of post-Soviet women in Germany.

2025 The Spot – Tragikomödie „Matröshki“ im Dreh

Industry coverage on the production of Alina’s debut feature.

2025 X3 Spaces – Residency against Disinformation

2025 – Jury Member, 31st Filmschau Baden-Württemberg – Alina Yklymova served on the three-member feature film jury at the 31st Filmschau Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, alongside director Hanna Seidel and producer Hanns Höhn.

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

2023 Pitching Matröshki at the Berlinale as part of the INTO THE WILD Mentoring Programme.
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.
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

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