Vadim Kostrov Movies
- 2025

bluish
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Errol and Sasha, two young women in their twenties, drift through their lives and the city. A study by fragments of existences waiting to happen.
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- 2025

Towards the light
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Shot on Mini DV and mostly in Paris, Towards the Light is a personal diary of exile. Through images of light, landscapes and memory, the film...
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- 2022

I Saw
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The film takes us to Nizhny Tagil in September of 2021. Gosha Gordienko, the front man of the rock band Lazy Comet, and Matthew Bedin came together...
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- 2024

Normandy
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The sea, the cliffs, the boats. A couple of Russian friends come to visit the filmmaker in exile in France. Glimpsed in the distance or invading the...
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- 2023

Still Free
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A film must confront the world in which it is made, but also the one in which it is shown. When Vadim Kostrov accompanied young couple Katya and...
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- 2017

Silent Night
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- 2020

Cometa
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Few days, two concerts in the one night in the heart of the Moscow. Film-concert about Moscow's trip of the Nizniy Tagil's underground rock-group...
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- 2020

But Free
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A reflection on freedom, filmed at the end of summer in one of the closed military camps, the full name of which is "ZATO Svobodny". Residents of...
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- 2021

Summer
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Set in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Summer journeys nostalgically through the warm middle-Ural summer with eight-year-old Vadim and his half-sister...
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- 2020

Orpheus
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The movie was shot at the junction of documentary and fiction films. The film takes the viewer into the late Ural summer of 2019 and immerses us in...
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- 2024

Waning
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Shot in late August 2024 in Warsaw, Poland; Waning articulates the very essence of fleeting moments of Vadim Kostrov’s life captured in fading...
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- 2022

Fall
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An Ural city of Nizhniy Tagil. Summer is over and a ten years old Vadim is moving to a new district and attends a new school. The last warm days of...
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- 2021

Ada and Maxim
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ADA a 23 year old girl. She was born in Nizhny Tagil, studied in Moscow at the University of Journalism and Literature, then she returned to her...
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- 2017

Family
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On December 31, 2017, there were only a few hours left before the new year, and a friend of mine came to celebrate the new year with one "family" in...
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- 2025

Donnez-Nous la Paix
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Shot in Roscoff and Île-de-Batz, Bretagne, Kostrov and his companions move through the unknown landscape, in displacement. Their contours blur...
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- 2024

Glimmering
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In Glimmering, Vadim Kostrov captures fleeting afternoon light in his backyard. Shot on miniDV and without sound, the film is a silent meditation on...
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- 2025

In Transit
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Shifting subtly between figuration and abstraction, with Rothko-esque golds and reds, the hypnotic En Traversée by prolific and steadfastly...
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- 2025

Éveil
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Parisian interplay of light and water colliding with the unique textures of MiniDV
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- 1970

Boys
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Boys — A short story — about the guys who stay away from the art underground, they just work at the local fast food cafe but in their...
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- 2020

After Narodnaya
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A bleak look into Ural's art underground after the closure of the Narodnaya gallery, probing into the position these artists hold outside the ambit...
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