Natalija Yefimkina

[1] Her documentary Garage People (Garagenvolk) won the Heiner Carow Prize at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.

[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 Kyiv, where she went to school, before settling in Germany in 1995.

[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] In 2019, she served as the first assistant director on Marcus Lenz's feature film Rival.