Hi, I’m Alina Yklymova, a German-Turkmen writer and director.
I’m drawn to people who have something to process. People who are not afraid to be difficult, tender, cruel, ridiculous, loving and wrong. My films look at family, migration and inherited violence through intimate relationships: how people use love and care to protect each other, but also to control, wound and survive. I don’t want to explain my characters too quickly. I want to stay with them long enough for something underneath to appear.
My work often begins with personal questions and grows through close, careful research. I like entering worlds I don’t fully know yet, and finding the human mess inside them.
My debut fiction feature Matröshki is currently in post-production.