Victoria Yakubova

Victoria Yakubova was born in 1977 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then part of the USSR. She emigrated with her family to Israel at the age of thirteen, then to France in 2002 to fulfil her dream of studying film. In 2014, she returned to her Central Asian roots and directed her first feature film, Olma Djon (Apple of Eden), which won numerous international awards. Victoria is currently preparing her next film, which will be shot in Paris, Rome and Tbilisi. Chez moi is her first book.