Alina Yklymova
DirectorALINA YKLYMOVA, who grew up in Turkmenistan and came of age in Hesse, says she feels at home everywhere and nowhere. The various cultural influences have shaped her unique perspective on storytelling. With a passion for film and television production, she began her professional journey, which encompassed various fields and artistic projects. However, she found her true calling when she decided to study directing at the renowned Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. The two films STÖRENFRIEDA and KURSCHATTEN, which were made during her directing studies at the Film Academy, are co-productions with Arte and SWR. Both films premiered at the Max Ophüls Prize 2022 and were subsequently shown at various national and international film festivals. In her films, she creates original worlds that, despite their uniqueness, have a connection to reality. In addition, sensitive and profound characters are important to her in order to give her films a philanthropic character.
Films
She Is a Good Boy
2022 | 26 min | Drama
When Ava's father Gunter, a classic macho dude, shows up at her door, worlds collide.
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She Is a Good Boy
2022 | 26 min | Drama
In the Ruhr Valley, the couple Ava and Sascha run the FLINT* pub STÖRENFRIDA. A heartfelt project that serves as a shelter for the community but also as a home for the couple. Into this closed world suddenly enters Ava's father Gunter, a former miner who needs a place to stay for a few weeks. Based on this charged triangular constellation, the film depicts the inclusivity and exclusivity of shelters and critically examines supposedly feminine and masculine spaces.
Analysis Paralysis
2016 | 9 min | Shorts
The man is looking for somebody who is better at playing chess than his dachshund. The gardener is looking for a mysterious vandal who is missing a yellow boot. In the end, they might just be looking for the same thing.
Rien ne va plus
2017 | 15 min | Shorts
Evi calls Bodo to tell him he won a prize in a competition he never took part in. As Bodo desperately tries to fend her off, he overhears how the casino Evi is calling from is being robbed... And now not only his life, but the lives of all the hostages are in danger.
Grimm’s Cuckoo
2012 | 15 min | Shorts
Joachim suffers from hallucinations. Suffers? Not really, because the “patrulls“, little paper men, entertain him fabulously; and his stay in the psychiatric clinic finally offers him peace and quiet, away from the turbulences of the outside world, that is until Alma enters his life, whose fairy-like appearance turns everything upside down.
Rot
2004 | 3 min | Shorts
A woman who has a penchant for the color yellow loves a man who only has eyes for the color red. To win him over, she comes up with a few ideas to convince him of her merits. Will her love be reciprocated? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz often combines socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches in his works. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting ...
Rosa
2004 | 2 min | Shorts
Eduard is afraid of the color pink. Sabine likes Robert and the color pink. Will that work out? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz's works often combine socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting that combines minimalism and intense character studies. In addition to feature films, he has also made short ...
Mär - A German Tale
2019 | 70 min | Drama
Journalist Leo Bernstein travels from Vienna to the Ruhr district where allegedly wolves were seen again. He tries to find out why the return of this wild animal seems to exert a disturbing power of attraction over many citizens. Coming up empty-handed in his research, more and more fragments of a fairy tale come to his mind though and ultimately take hold of him. They tell of a young handmaid who once gave birth to a wolf emanating mortal danger to its surroundings. As the fairy tale turns increasingly ...
Robin
2008 | 21 min | Shorts
The film was shot on the "Kölnberg" high-rise complex in Cologne-Meschenich, which is considered a social hotspot. Hanno Olderdissens's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was awarded more than ten prizes internationally. Robin is eight when his mother Sabine becomes pregnant again. Because Sabine is overwhelmed with child, new boyfriend and pregnancy, Robin has to go to a foster home. When he returns after three months, the situation has not improved at all. The mother's new ...
Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen
1981 | 13 min | Shorts
A young woman walks straight from the subway at Hamburg Central Station into the strangely somnambulistic world of an overnight train. She starts rummaging through the bags of sleeping passengers. These are at first gentle, then increasingly urgent incursions, an immersion into the intimate details of private lives on anonymous terrain. "The magic of the first movie! We are immersed in the dialog-free scenery of a night train in the 1980s, in which the protagonist rummages subversively and undisturbed ...
Der Anschlag
1984 | 9 min | Shorts
A woman and a man clash in a bar in Hamburg, when she slaps him (almost) out of nowhere. The response is completely unexpected. It ignites a series of liberating slaps that spread through the city like wildfire. "Someone can't just smack me and declare it art." This statement by the then West German Minister of the interior was the starting point for Pia Frankenberg's second film.