Lilith Kraxner

Shot on Mini DV and mostly in Paris, Towards the Light is a personal diary of exile. Through images of light, landscapes and memory, the film captures a year (2023) of reflective solitude in exile for Russian filmmaker Vadim Kostrov and his wife, artist Natasha Goncharova. A poetic meditation on displacement, loss and the search for light through darkness.

A young woman spends a lot of time in a house. She is usually alone, sometimes she chats on the phone, she rarely receives visits: a buddy with her boyfriend, a potential boyfriend, wannabe candidates for a room to rent. Until the right roommate arrives…

A young woman spends a lot of time in a house. She is usually alone, sometimes she chats on the phone, she rarely receives visits: a buddy with her boyfriend, a potential boyfriend, wannabe candidates for a room to rent. Until the right roommate arrives…

Errol and Sasha, two young women in their twenties, drift through their lives and the city. A study by fragments of existences waiting to happen.

Errol and Sasha, two young women in their twenties, drift through their lives and the city. A study by fragments of existences waiting to happen.

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A radically intimate film about landscapes we never knew we possessed.