Natalija Yefimkina
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Natalija Yefimkina (Ukrainian: Наталія Єфімкіна, romanized: Natalija Yefimkina; born 6 July 1983) is a Ukrainian-born German filmmaker.[1] Her documentary Garage People (Garagenvolk) won the Heiner Carow Prize at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. She is a resident of Berlin.
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 Kyiv, where she went to school, before settling in Germany in 1995.
