Vadim Kostrov

Normandy (2024)

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 screen – the shimmer of the waves is everywhere. ...

Still Free (2023)

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 Kostya to a nearby lake, and filmed them with the directness for which he is known, he couldn't foresee the pol ...

I Saw (2022)

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 to compose the song Ya Videl for the new album of the group, which wasn't finished. The film is a memory, a ...

Ada and Maxim (2022)

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 hometown. Maxim - a 23 year old man, He is a Polish Jew who works at the Uralvagonzavod foundry. This film tak ...

Narodnaya (2021)

Filmed in the latter half of summer, 2019, 'Narodnaya' follows the travails of a garage gallery opened by members of the Nizhniy Tagil underground as it prepares and hosts concerts and an exhibition, revealing in the process the philosophies and principles ...

After Narodnaya (2020)

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 of institutions and community. ...

Cometa (2020)

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 «lazy comet» in the end of the winter 2020th. The closing part of trilogy , which have started with «Narodn ...

But Free (2020)

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 Svobodny of different ages answer questions about what is freedom? Are they free? And is "Svobodny" Free? ...

Orpheus (2020)

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 the real life of today's youth, with all its uncertainty, fragility, pain, despair and aspirations. ...

Loft-Underground (2019)

The film tells about the Moscow art underground through the history of Moscow squats. What does it mean to live today and not adjust at a time when the king of Oats took away, as it seems to us, all the fairy tales? ...

Silent Night (2017)

KADRILL’ (2017)

Shots of forgotten songs, rural and urban landscapes of the hinterland. Young people.. ...

Breath of This Autumn (2017)

Life as run. I'll give you a few minutes to stop and see. I'll help you catch the moment. Carpe diem. ...

bluish (2025)

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. ...

Normandy (2024)

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 screen – the shimmer of the waves is everywhere. ...

Orpheus (2020)

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 the real life of today's youth, with all its uncertainty, fragility, pain, despair and aspirations. ...