Minsk, August 2020. Pasha and Yulia, a young married couple, leave the house at night and find themselves in the midst of peaceful protests. Everyday walk turns into a real hell, in which innocent people are victims of police brutality.
Three stories of immigrants trying to start new lives in Poland: an Afghan traumatised by the war, a Ukrainian lost in her own body, and a Belarusian running away from painful love. The Afghan, Azzam, works as a translator for the Polish army. In his homeland he is treated like a traitor. Having been evacuated to Poland, he is unable to shake off the war experiences. The Ukrainian, Wiera, escapes to Poland to undergo sex reassignment surgery in secret from her family. An unexpected visit from her father and little son will make her face the question of her own identity once more. Żanna, the Belarusian, leaves her husband, a dissident, and lives together with her daughter at her sister’s in Warsaw. She wants to move out as soon as possible and make a normal home. Things get complicated when her husband gets arrested again.
Weißrussland – ein vergessenes Land am Rande Europas, in dem Alexander Lukaschenko seit mehr als 20 Jahren uneingeschränkt herrscht. Der ehemalige Sowchose-Vorsitzende wurde zum Despoten des Ostens. In dem Land gibt es zwei konträre Bewegungen: Die eine schaut in Richtung Moskau und akzeptiert die autoritäre Macht. Die andere versucht, der staatlichen Kontrolle zu widerstehen, und kämpft für die Erinnerung an kritische Bürger, die vom Regime ausgelöscht wurden. Seit März 2017 ist wieder ein Wind der Revolte im Land zu spüren - kann der Traum vom weißrussischen Frühling wahr werden?
A documentary about Tanjuska who is a 12-year-old White-Russian schoolgirl, with a face like an icon. Two years ago she stopped eating, then talking and finally she stopped growing. The village priest in Estonia has explained to the family that seven devils have made a home inside Tanjuska. These devils are giving her orders and only a daily ceremony can force the devils to leave the girl.
Belarus has been under dictatorship of Lukashenko for 15 years. Miron (23) is not interested in politics. However, the next concert of his 'apolitical' rock band triggers off an anti-regime manifestation. Miron, is enlisted for the army for 15 months by way of punishment for 'fomenting political unrest among young people'. And this is just a beginning.. A film inspired by the story of Frank Viachorka, activist of the Belorussian opposition. Starring top Belorussian cinema and rock stars.
Criminals kidnap the seven years old daughter of a large Azerbaijani businessman Rustam Ibragimov. The purpose of the kidnappers - the father's refusing of the high post in the government. The girl being taken through Belarus to smuggle to Europe. However, the girl manages to escape from his pursuers. Polina - a simple village woman finds the terrified child.
A journey through a place of an eternal past; where the grandson of a Jewish partisan sets out to experience the dramatic events and places that shaped his grandfather's war years
2021 was a turning point for Belarus and 6 Belarusian students - as well as for the city of Łódź, Poland, in which they found themselves. Across the rails of change and transformation, documenting a time that has not been before and will not repeat again. Heroes of the film have very different fates and experiences, but they are all connected by the place they found themselves in - the post-industrial and post-apocalyptic city, which becomes a part of their story and a hero of its own. Students, transport, quaters, youth, revolution, local apocalypse, changes and turns - they all mix in a documentary kaleidoscope 'Across the Rails'.
a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain
One of the five-part documentary series by Belarusian writer and director Viktor Dashuk, which recounts the horrors experienced by the Belarusian people during World War II, through firsthand accounts of survivors and newsreel footage.
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Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically died. Many years ago he dreamed of building a city, and now she is walking along the street bearing his name, a street without end. Having met her father’s friends, Olya learns him anew. They tell the girl how her father wanted to see large houses and wide streets on the site of the tent city. How he knew how to be friends and to love, and how longed for Olya when he broke up with his wife, who didn't agree to go with him.
Victor Asliuk's contrast of rural and urban life in Belarus examines the tangible differences between the young in the city and the elderly in the village and between modernity and tradition, interspersing modern images with archive material depicting the countryside as it used to be.
Diplomatie ist Andrei Sannikovs Leben. Als Spitzendiplomat rüstete er eines der weltweit gefährlichsten Atomwaffenarsenale ab. Heute kämpft er um die Rückkehr einer verlorenen Demokratie.
Nach Auflösung der Sowjetunion scheint alles möglich zu sein. Andrei Sannikov kommt eine ganz besondere Aufgabe zu, denn als Diplomat ist er maßgeblich an der nuklearen Abrüstung Belarus’ beteiligt - ohne am Anfang zu wissen, wie viele Sprengköpfe sich überhaupt im Land befinden. Diese Abrüstung weckt nach den Schrecken des Kalten Krieges auch international die Hoffnung, dass eine Welt ohne Atomwaffen irgendwann einmal möglich sein könnte.
Die Dokumentation gibt Einblicke, wie sehr sich das Leben von acht belarussichen Frauen verändert hat, die nach den Präsidentschaftswahlen im Sommer 2020 mutig für Freiheit und Demokratie in ihrem Land auf die Straße gegangen sind.
This is a story of the lane which becomes a witness of civilization development with final understanding of historic recurrence.
the violator is constantly straying
Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer, is one of the spiritual symbols of Belarus. He did everything to make Belarusians feel like a full-fledged people. This is a figure that cannot be reduced by anything from the height of modernity. But the weight of recognition, inclusion in the ranks of the classics leads to petrification of the face. The authors of the film remove this petrification - verses sound throughout the film. Patriotic songs that sing the praises of Belarus and our people, awaken them from historical apathy and eternal longing. Mystics who whisper about the revival of the past that sleeps in the mound. And intimate and lyrical, filled with intimate beauty, eternal sensuality and lust for life.