Pavel Kostomarov

The Russian cinematographer and documentary film director Pavel Kostomarov was born in Moscow in 1975 He has won the Lavr prize (2004 and 2007) and the Bely Slon prize (2007), as well as a Silver Bear for outstanding artistic achievement at the Berlinale (2010), and the Golden Eagle Award (2011). He graduated from the cinematographic faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (2002).

He worked with the director Sergei Loznitsa as a cameraman on the documentary films Polustanok (2000), The Settlement (2001), Portrait (2002), Landscape (2003), Letter (2013). He also collaborated with the director Boris Khlebnikov on the fiction films Till Night Do Us Part (2012) and A Long and Happy Life (2013).

As a director, he collaborated with Antoine Cattin on the documentary films Transformator (2003), Mirnaya Zhizn (2004), and The Mother (2007). These films received numerous festival awards and prizes. He made the documentary films I Love You and I Don’t Love You with the documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguyev in 2010 and 2012, respectively. In December 2012 he launched the large-scale documentary project Realnost (Reality) with Rastorguyev and the NTV presenter Alexei Pivovarov.