Hi, I’m Alina Yklymova, a German-Turkmen writer-director working between fiction and documentary film.
My films are drawn to people who are tender, cruel, ridiculous, loving, wounded, and wrong. In a good way.
I look at family, migration, and inherited violence through intimate relationships. I am interested in how love and care can become shelter, but also pressure.
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 messy, human heart inside them.
My debut fiction feature Matröshki is currently in post-production.