Vladimir Nadein — Acting | Biography, Movies & Career

Biography

Vladimir Nadein (b. 1993) is a film producer, curator, educator and distributor. His first feature as a producer, "Detours" (dir. Ekaterina Selenkina), was co-produced with Netherlands and supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and won the Eurimages Lab Project Award in Les Arcs. The film has been screened at Venice Critics’ Week, Viennale, Thessaloniki, Berlin Critics’ Week, FICUNAM, Jeonju, IndieLisboa, Beldocs, Filmadrid, Camden, and more. With his film projects he participated in industry programs like FID Lab, LIM Meet, Cinemart IFFR, BoostNL, DocsBarcelona, Cinelink Sarajevo, East West Talent Lab - goEast. For over a decade, Vladimir has curated exhibitions and screenings for festivals and art venues across Europe and Asia including the Venice Architecture Biennale, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Image Forum Tokyo, Hamburg SFF, MIEFF, C-LAB Taipei, GoShort, Fotografiska Berlin, Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Minimalen Trondheim, BRNO 16 and many more. Vladimir has also been involved in the selection process for various editions of the First Cut Lab and the Pop-Up Film Residency Munich. Now he serves on the preselection committees for Vienna Shorts and European Short Pitch, and occasionally offers script and editing consultancy following his training at the Solace23 workshop led by Franz Rodenkirchen and Françoise von Roy. As an educator, he has lectured on experimental and archival film, found footage at the Taipei Media School and the National Taiwan University of the Arts, and has taught script and project development at the Moscow School of New Cinema.

In 2024, he co-founded the Paris-based production company Denapa, which maintains a strong focus on hybrid, experimental cinema, and docufiction. The company is currently developing I Can Feel You Breathing Into My Palm (dir. Alexandra Karelina) and Silence is the Enemy of the Sea (dir. Evgeny Rodin & Dina Karaman). In early 2026, he joined the Rome-based sales and distribution company Gargantua to lead the expansion of their catalog into feature-length films.

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