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Yefimkina speaking at Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, 2021

Natalija Yefimkina (Template:Lang-uk; born 6 July 1983) is a Ukrainian-born German filmmaker.[1] Her documentary Garage People (German: Garagenvolk) won the Heiner Carow Prize at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. She is a resident of Berlin.

Early life

Yefimkina was born in Kyiv, then-capital of the Ukrainian SSR, to a Ukrainian academic couple.[1]

In 1986, as a result of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, her and her family left Ukraine, first relocating to Siberia. 1989 the family moved back to Kiev, where she went to school, before settling in Germany in 1995.

Career

Yefimkina studied history and literature in Berlin before starting her career as an assistant director and production assistant in feature film productions.[1] Her work experience includes being the second assistant director on the feature film "Mädchen in Eis" (directed by Stefan Krohmer) and the television feature film "Zeit der Maturity" (ARD) in 2014.[2]

She has also directed several short documentary works, such as the reportage "Schau in meine Welt" (KiKA) in 2015 and worked as a stringer and translator on the series "From Amsterdam to Odessa" (MDR/Arte) in the same year.[2] In 2019, she served as the first assistant director on Marcus Lenz's feature film "Rival".

Her directorial debut is the feature documentary "Garage People" (2020). She won the Audentia Award of EURIMAGES 2020,[3] Werner Herzog annual award 2020 [4] and Fairness award from ver.di-FilmUnion and federal acting association (BFFS) 2022.[5]

Filmography

Director

  • 2019: 24H Europe: The Next Generation (TV Documentary)
  • 2020: Garage People (Documentary) (also screenplay)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Наталья Ефимкина". Кино-Театр.Ру (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  2. ^ a b admin-britta (2021-01-06). "Garagenvolk". barnsteiner-film (in German). Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  3. ^ "Council of Europe Eurimages News". Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  4. ^ "Werner Herzog Stiftung". www.wernerherzog.org (in German). Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  5. ^ "Nachrichten Deutscher Fairnesspreis für 'Garagenvolk' von Natalija Yefimkina". Retrieved 2023-05-01.
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