Vladimir Kozlov

Vladimir Kozlov was born in Mogilev, an industrial city in what was then the Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic and is now the country of Belarus.

He spent his childhood and adolescence on the suburbs of that city, witnessing the collapse of the Soviet empire and a bizarre mix of unbridled freedom, wild capitalism and rampant crime in the early 1990s.

Kozlov has a dozen of fiction and non-fiction books to his name, many of which have been shortlisted or long-listed for major book prizes. He is the winner of the prestigious Made in Russia award in the Literature category (2013).

Kozlov’s works have been translated into English, French, Serbian and Slovak.

He debuted as a film director in 2013 with an adaptation of his novella Desyatka (Number Ten), which collected the Bronze Award at the debut film festival Spirit of Fire in Khanty-Mansiisk (Russia).

Kozlov subsequently made Sledy na snegu (Traces in the Snow), a groundbreaking documentary about the influential Siberian punk rock movement of the 1980s, and the features Kozha (Skin), Anomiya (Anomie) and Kak my zakhotim (Whatever We Want).

Filmography

2018 Kak my zakhotim / Whatever We Want – writer, director, co-producer

2016 Anomiya / Anomie – writer, director, co-producer Special mention in the Free Spirit competition at Warsaw film festival 

2015 Kozha / Skin – writer, director, co-producer

2014 Sledy na snegu / Traces in the Snow – writer, director, producer

2013 Desyatka / 10 – writer, director, co-producer Bronze Award at Spirit of Fire festival (Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia)

2004 Igry Motylkov / Butterfly Games – writer