Vladimir Nadein
Vladimir Nadein
– independent film producer, curator and filmmaker. A member of the filmmakers’ duo Paracollective, together with Dina Karaman.
Selected curatorial projects:
2023, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (upcoming)
Theme program curator
2021, KINOLABORATORIA, New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival, Saint-Petersburg
Head of film lab
2020-2021, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, OPEN (Special Jury Mention)
Co-curator, film curator
2016-2020, Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF)
Co-founder and festival director
2020, Extracurricular practices, special project of VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Co-curator
2020, “Time for collective actions” film program, VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Co-curator
2019, “Panorama” film festival, Moscow
Curator
2018, “There is no movement NOW” film program, 35th Hamburg International Short film Festival
Guest curator
2019, Hand and Machine (Hand made 16mm films from Australia), Zvezda cinema, Moscow
Curator
2018 Björn Kammerer short films, Cinema and Photo Research Institute, Moscow
Curator
2018, Moscow Jewish Film Festival
Special program curator
2017, (Im)possible to see: North Korea, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
Film curator
2017, «Alphabet for an Artist» film program , Friedl Kubelka School, Vienna, Austria
Curator
2016, «Far from Moscow» festival, University of California, Los-Angeles
Film curator
Solo exhibition:
Deep Play, Very Temple Art Salon, Taipei, Taiwan, 2022
Selected group exhibitions:
Hauntology of post-soviet spaces, HSE art gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2020
A Better version of you – Technology fair, Art Sonje, Seoul, South Korea, 2017
Producer’s filmography:
Detours (2021)
Russia, Netherlands / 73 min.
Director: Ekaterina Selenkina
Producer: Vladimir Nadein
36th Venice International Film Critics’ Week (World premiere) – Best directing among women under 40 Award | dedicated to the director Valentina Pedicini
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Russian premiere)
Viennale (Austrian premiere)
62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greek premiere)
II New Holland Island Debut International Film Festival – Best Russian film
Berlin Critics’ Week (German premiere)
New East, Barbican Center (UK premiere)
FICUNAM (North American premiere)
JEONJU International Film Festival (Asian premiere)
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (French premiere)
IndieLisboa (Portuguese premiere)
BelDocs (Serbian premiere)
FILMADRID (Spanish premiere) — Best Film Award
Marienbad Film Festival (Czech premiere)
Camden International Film Festival (US premiere)
UNDERDOX, Munich
Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (Taiwan premiere)
Film and Architecture Festival, Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning, Prague
FICUNAM on tour Mexico
Schaubuеhne Lindenfells, Leipzig
Theatre Massimo, Torino
Venezia a Napoli. Il cinema esteso
Lendoc Film Festival
Hubert Bals Fund Script and project development grant – International Film Festival Rotterdam
Erurimage Lab project Award – Les Arcs Film Festival
Boost NL, Nederlands Film Festival
Danton’s Death (2020)
Russa / 90 min.
Director: Andrey Stadnikov
New Holland Island Debut International Film Festival (World premiere)
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow premiere)
Arrival (2019)
Russia, USA, Belarus / 14 min.
Director: Alina Nasibullina
65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (World premiere)
goEast Film Festival 2020
7th Altan Khalis International Film Festival (Mongolian premiere)
Nancy International Film Festival (French premiere)
28th dokumentART – films & future
17th Shnit Worldwide Short film festival (Russian premiere)
Daily news — A chronicle of Our Days (2019)
Russia / 2019 / 62 min.
Director: Dina Karaman
Producer: Vladimir Nadein
IV Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
XXIX Message to Man International Film Festival, Saint-Petersburg
Birobidzhan Atlas (2018)
Russia, USA / 18 min.
Director: Anton Ginzburg
Producer: Vladimir Nadein
Exhibition in the Birobidzhan Regional Philharmonic
Director’s filmography:
Demorgan
co-directing with Dina Karaman
Feature length / In development / 2023
ArtDocFest, pitching session, Riga, Latvia, 2021
Selected artist talks, panels:
Resisting machinima, National Taiwan University of the Arts, 2022
Decentralized States of the Digital Economy, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli , Milan, Italy, 2022
Residencies, workshops and labs:
2022, VT Art Salon/ Taipei Artist Village, artist-in-residence, Taipei
2021, East West Talent Lab, goEast, Wiesbaden
2020, Boost NL/Cinemart, International Film Festival Rotterdam
2019, Boost NL, Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht
Teaching and mentorship:
2022, Taiwan Pitch, Talent Village, Taipei
“Revealing the reel” found footage workshop
2022, Dissent found footage workshop
Co-tutor with Dina Karaman
2020 – present, Moscow School of New Cinema
Tutor for script and project development
2021, ADS8 – Data Matter[s] – The Gaming Edition, Royal College of Art, School of Architecture, London
Jury, expert boards:
2020, 17th International Debut Film Festival “Spirit of Fire”
Short film competition jury member
2019, “Message to Man” International Film Festival
Experimental film competition “InSilico” jury member
2018, Short Film Festival Hamburg
Short film competition jury member
2018, Present continuous V-A-C / M HKA
Expert board member
Selected film/theatre acting projects:
AI IS IS THE ANSWER – WHAT WAS THE QUESTION (2021)
Directed by Christian von Borries
Weakness (2019)
Directed by Evgeny Granilshchikov
Yuha (2015)
Directed by Maria Ignatenko
Mahamaya Electronic Devices, Praktika Theatre (2015)
Written by Ivan Vyrypaev
Education:
2009-2013, Moscow Art Theater School
BA Film and theater acting

Producers’ filmography:
Detours (2021)
Russia, Netherlands / 73 min.
Director: Ekaterina Selenkina
Producer: Vladimir Nadein
Co-producer: Rogier Kramer (Dutch Mountain Film)
Hubert Bals Fund Script and project development grant – International Film Festival Rotterdam Erurimage Lab project Award – Les Arcs Film Festival
36th Venice International Film Critics’ Week (World premiere) – Best directing among women under 40 Award | dedicated to the director Valentina Pedicini
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Russian premiere)
Viennale (Austrian premiere)
62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greek premiere)
II New Holland Island Debut International Film Festival – Best Russian film Berlin Critics’ Week (German premiere)
New East, Barbican Center (UK premiere)
FICUNAM (North American premiere)
IndieLisboa (Portuguese premiere)
JEONJU International Film Festival (Asian premiere)
BelDocs (Serbian premiere)
goEast, Wiesbaden
Venezia a Napoli. Il cinema esteso
Lendoc Film Festival
Dantons’ Death (2020)
Russa / 90 min.
Director: Andrey Stadnikov
New Holland Island Debut International Film Festival (World premiere) Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow premiere)
Arrival (2019)
Russia, USA, Belarus / 14 min.
Director: Alina Nasibullina
65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (World premiere) goEast Film Festival 2020
7th Altan Khalis International Film Festival (Mongolian premiere) Nancy International Film Festival (French premiere)
28th dokumentART – films & future
17th Shnit Worldwide Short film festival (Russian premiere)
Daily news — A chronicle of Our Days (2019)
Russia / 2019 / 62 min.
Director: Dina Karaman
Producer: Vladimir Nadein
IV Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
XXIX Message to Man International Film Festival, Saint-Petersburg
Birobidzhan Atlas (2018)
Russia, USA / 18 min.
Director: Anton Ginzburg
Producer: Vladimir Nadein
Exhibition in the Birobidzhan Regional Philharmonic
Filmmakers’ filmography:
Demorgan
by Paracollective
Russia / feature length / In development ArtDocFest, pitching session, Riga, Latvia, 2021
Another Zone
by Paracollective
Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Italy / feature length / In development East West Talent Lab, goEast Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2021
Dacha
by Paracollective
Abkhazia, Russia / 2021 / 14 min.
Hauntology of post soviet spaces HSE art gallery.
Teaching:
2020 – present, Moscow School of New Cinema
Tutor for script and project development, feature film lab
2021, ADS8 – Data Matter[s] – The Gaming Edition, Royal College of Art, School of Architecture
Visiting lecturer
Jury, expert boards:
2020, 17th International Debut Film Festival “Spirit of Fire”
Short film competition jury member
2019, “Message to Man” International Film Festival
Experimental film competition “InSilico” jury member
2018, Present continuous V-A-C / M HKA
Expert board member
Selected film/theater acting projects:
AI IS IS THE ANSWER – WHAT WAS THE QUESTION (2021) Directed by Christian von Borries
Weakness (2019)
Directed by Evgeny Granilshchikov
Yuha (2015)
Directed by Maria Ignatenko
Mahamaya Electronic Devices, Praktika Theatre (2015) Written by Ivan Vyrypaev
Education:
2009-2013, Moscow Art Theater School
BA Film and theater acting
Vladimir Nadein