Alina Matochkina

ALINA MATOCHKINA is a director, screenwriter and conceptual embroidery artist. She studied documentary film directing at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary University of Theater, Film and Television in Kiev. She worked in video production until the beginning of the war. In early 2022, she completed her first documentary “ADA”, a feature-length film about the work of the prominent but forgotten Ukrainian artist couple Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko. Ada’s artistic work oscillates between tradition and modernity. She has embroidered stage costumes for famous Ukrainian and Russian artists and collaborated with the LUVI design studio.