ЗИМА (WINTER)
dir. Vadim Kostrov, 2021
91 mins. Russia.
In Russian with English subtitles.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 – 7:30 PM ($10 w/Q&A)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 – 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21 – 7:30 PM ($10 w/Q&A)

Kostrov’s third of four autobiographical seasons films undergoes a number of dramatic developments from its predecessors, both in the harsh change in tone of the Ural landscape and the upscale from miniDV to high resolution widescreen. The young Vadim, now a teenager, shelters from the winter in a repetitive interior purgatory of online Counter-Strike matches. When he does leave his home, he wanders a blanketed alien world, tagging graffiti where he can to plant seeds of color on the blank canvas that surrounds him.