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As Max's family celebrates his sixth birthday and an uninvited guest shows up that everyone tries to send away. The mystery man brings Max a cactus for a present and what unfolds ends up a painful memory for the rest of his life.
Little boy Janka became seriously ill and huddled deep within his bed. He would like to see the Sun, but autumn has chased away the good weather, cold rainy day was outside behind the window. Janka's sister, Alenka, is going to help little brother and goes to look for the Sun.
Breaking taboos: Belarusian contemporary artist Aliaksei Kuzmich gives us the keys to understanding his art of action.
Residents of the village in Gomel oblast' tell legends about forest spirits and features of communicating with them. Old customs and superstitions have survived to our days.
Where is this train going? Passengers are lulled to sleep by the rhythmic clatter of the wheels, familiar poetic lines about the native land, and folk songs. Is it possible to change the direction, to hop on another train, to rewind the tape? Quavering reflections dance in a strange roundelay: the grain, a girl, a stork, a bone, the truth, and the resentment... Welcome to the Gray Edge.
Underground Belarusian poets read their own verses inspired by the experience of living in 2020s Belarus. Sometimes poetic fiction and harsh reality collide in the picturesque backgrounds.
Suddenly, in a small city terrible murders of men began to occur, which resemble ancient pagan rituals.
After the collapse of the USSR, several not yet old single men returned to their parents' huts in a small Belarusian village. Not remembering the past, not thinking about the future, men live one day, escaping from loneliness with vodka and conversations. They are fragments of that life that has passed and which they will never return or glue together.
A moment of ice-cold horror.
ACA 163: Kolodko vs. Mamashov was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, September 22, 2023 the Falcon Club Arena in Minsk, Belarus.
A teenager, to get his mother's love and attention, fakes his suicide through a closed online group, dragging himself into a deadly game.
In August 2020, people gathered on the steps of the Belarusian State Philharmonic in Minsk to protest against the fraudulent presidential election. Holding signs that read "Our voice has been stolen", they stood up to the violence by singing together. Although the authorities pacified this spontaneous gathering, musicians soon began to appear on protest marches in shopping centers and subways, each time inspiring people with songs about the dignity, courage, fate and faith of Belarusians. This is how one of the symbols of the Belarusian resistance movement - the "Free Choir" - was born .
Mara, Iosif's young wife, dies. Struggling to accept her death, Iosif hopes to find solace in the first November snow. In the hollow of an old oak, he finds Mara's last gift: a magical music box where her songs live. When Iosif wants to listen to the enthralling sounds, he swings the windows wide open. But one day someone steals the wondrous box...
A philosophical parable about the lives of a girl, her parents, and a tree.
The plot of the military propaganda movie tells about a young ambitious programmer Alexei Kuzmenkov, who, despite the deferment, goes to the army to learn more about military orders and the device of military equipment to create a computer game. However, while serving, Alexei does a complete "reset" of his entire life. He breaks with illusions about easy victories and quick achievements, overcomes his own weaknesses and temptations, meets reliable and loyal friends, becomes a real man and opens new perspectives of his own life.
The film is shaped as a diary of the author's memories telling about the problematic relationship between father and daughter caused by the father's mental illness, and the troubles caused by this condition during the author's growth. The need of the author to free herself from the influence of the past and to break the shell of silence around this painful situation brings her back to Belarus, to shoot interviews with various family members and collect also their memories and points of view. In the end the author decides that it's time to leave this circle of painful opinions behind and strengthen her own good memories of her father building the chance to finally build a new relationship between an adult daughter and the father.
What is a minority dictatorship? The conspirators' public confessions that they do not need elections, but protests, and that which was hidden until the operatives got down to business - in the film "The Overwhelming Minority".
The group of conspirators, which was preparing a military coup in Belarus, was associated with the American special services, and in order to achieve their goal, they were looking for ways out to high-ranking officers of the Belarusian army. Investigation of the State Security Committee - in the film "To Kill the President".
This film is about the protest through the eyes of LGBT + activists from Belarus - Olya, Zhenya and Sveta tell what it is like to be LGBT + people and fight for equal rights in the country where the revolution is taking place.
Everyone in the yard knows the eccentric Oleg, but no one knows where he goes on his two-wheeled tractor...
Minimal stories in a Belarusian village apparently indifferent to the popular uprisings in Minsk. The young director, who has left the country, defines them as 'choreographies of everyday life' in a film about 'rules that limit personal freedoms and at the same time ensure that the social organism works...'
You cannot say "former security officials" because they remain faithful to their profession. But in fact, none of the heroes of the film is already working - people did not agree on the characters, principles and assessments of the events taking place with the leadership. We remember how the events developed and try once again to understand what is happening behind the shields.
A documentary film dedicated to girls who went through detention and arrest during the Belarusian protests in August 2020. The first-person film tells how a prison cell changes a person and how long it takes to find a way out – even after being released. “The Sisters of Protest” is a series of monologues of people from different backgrounds, woven into the common experience of a Belarusian girl who is not ready to remain silent when she is deprived of her basic rights.
A night-time traffic check with an unhappy ending: on a highway somewhere in Belarus an intoxicated driver is pulled over. The reason behind his condition can be found in the boot: a talking fish. Director Debaluk skillfully combines a typical present-day situation with century-old Belarusian fairy-tales.
Every year during the summer solstice the Belarusians celebrate “Kupalle”. Kupalle is the triumph of love, abundance of the nature power, unity with the native land. Kupalle always gave the Belarusians the energy charge for the whole next year. Сelebrating Kupalle people used to create new couples, bear healthy children. The contemporary political situation has broken the connection of the Belarusians with their native culture, has replaced the true nation’s spiritual values with the tendency of low-grade mass entertainments. But while the people’s initiative exists, while there are charismatic individuals, who still have the soul power to care about the tradition, so the Belarusian nation lives – side by side with the imposed absurd.
Pavel, 28, moved Crimea to a Ukrainian village after the annexation of the peninsula. But it is not easy for him to integrate into the new society. It's easier to be alone.
Mass protests across Belarus erupted following the widely disputed election that put President Lukashenko in office for a sixth term. Three Belarusian filmmakers document personal stories of people caught up in the political turmoil. Filmmaker Maksim Shved was arrested, imprisoned and then released while the protests around him swelled. Meanwhile, Ekaterina Markavets observes the psychological burden of her fellow citizens and worked with professional psychologists to set up a volunteer support service for people affected by current events. Andrei Kutsila followed a celebrated Belarusian broadcast journalist who worked for State TV for nearly 40 years, now in hospital recovering from injuries she sustained while at a protest. All three filmmakers wonder what the future holds for their country and fellow citizens.
Vanya is engaged in website design and makes good money on it. But money does not make him happy; his teddy bear Toto does. One morning Vanya notices a plush squirrel in a passing car. It seems to him that she is crying, apparently due to the fact that others do not notice that there is consciousness inside the squirrel. The squirrel could be a great couple for Totoshka and add a lot of joy to the life of Vanya and Totoshka. They find out that the squirrel was taken away from Minsk, and they set off in pursuit.
A short film by Gosha Berlinsky.
In Belarus, a group of enthusiasts made the film "Abel" as a kind of message of peace. Starting from the first recorded murder of one person by another (the Cain and Abel brothers), the author of the film tried to create a situation in which the next organized war appears in all its futility and anti-humanity. The main points are not military scenes, but rather the relatively innocuous thoughts of the main character: El Pablo against his will was sent to war, with people to whom he does not feel hatred. The film "Abel" stands out primarily for its alternative approach to short films, while preserving at the same time many of the principles of the art genre.
A harrowing and brave response to dictatorship.
Folklore is a metaphorical image of a person's existence. Erotic part of life is no exception. Our ancestors had traditions with erotic subtext for every holiday, closely tied to the notion of fertility.
"Love in Belarus" is love through the prison bars for Nasta Palazhanka and Dzmitry Dashkevich . They met in the "Young Front" - illegal Democratic organization. After protests in December 2010, they were put in prison. After detention in a KGB pretrial center Nasta was sentenced to a year of probation, and Dmitry was thrown in jail almost for three years. During his detention Dzmitry’s mom died, and Nastya remained the sole support for his father. The young couple married in prison, and on August 28, 2013 the leader of the "Young Front " was released. The lovers wrote thousands of letters to each other from behind the bars. These letters tell us about the feelings of young Belarusians, who fell in love in the time of the dictatorship.
This is a strange little place, where in winter, among the snowdrifts and frozen ice waterfalls, it is very warm. Men and women half-dressed, heated. Their movements at the machines are perfect - fast, rhythmic, precise, like a dance. The relentless rumble of cars is like music. Such an impeccable harmony between people and mechanisms that they seem to be something single, whole, a continuation of each other. Only for moments does a debugged endless action interrupt: someone thinks, or wipes sweat from his forehead, or sits down to breathe. People at this factory in the village of Smilovichi near Minsk make felt boots, which are then sold around the world.
A young girl finds an outlet for her violent childhood, taking her on an unimaginable journey fighting for a world championship.
The origins of oppression in contemporary Belarus, a condemning indictment of the Belarusian social justice system and of President Alexander Lukashenko's brutal authoritarian regime. Working under constant state surveillance in a country where dissenting journalists and politicians have been kidnapped and killed, Dashuk outlines how Lukashenko brought the legal system and the state under his exclusive control. Dashuk's camera is present when the election commission headquarters of the 2004 referendum are raided by Lukashenko's thugs. Describing his country as a dictatorship where Themis, goddess of justice and morality, has degenerated into a lady of easy virtue seeking her own self interest, Dashuk uses damning evidence show trials against the innocent, the disappearance and destruction of political opponents, the use of brute violence against anyone that opposes the ruling powers to draw a direct line from the methods of Stalin to the rule of Lukashenko.
Love is an intentional practice, a skill, a choice, and a path to growth, breaking cycles, and fostering universal connection.
Documentary short by Volha Dashuk about amateur filmmaker Anatol Schneider.
Upcoming short drama about love. Plot TBA.
The lawlessness of the police reaches a new level and now the prisoners are forced to endure torture, but one day everything gets out of control. A death row inmate breaks free, after which the captain and his assistant are sent in search of him, but everything gets out of hand and they let Fronzdi and his accomplice through.
Portrait film of Viktar Zalatsilin.
Wedding traditions of Polesie.
Namskyi Velikden is the widespread Day of Dead in the Polesie. According to the old legends it is believed that souls of the dead ancestors come back to earth.
He represented the independent Belarusian comedian Dmitry Naryshkin. "90 Minutes of Freedom" is an hour and a half of daring comedy. It has jokes on any topic: from Lukashenko and Prigozhin's military rebellion to OnlyFans and Warsaw Pride. Jokes that are now unrealistic to present on comedy venues in Minsk or Moscow.
Andrey Kudinenko's essay film about the cinema of Valentin Vinogradov, an ottepel era Soviet director accused of aestheticism.
An amateur chess player tries to make a friend on the online chess platform. As he grows more desperate, awkwarness of the encounter turns into creepiness.
A farm in the provinces of Belarus. Equipped with a homemade weapon, a boy rehearses warrior poses. Will he kill the majestic domestic pig? Intense thriller that is about nothing less that the roots of violence.
After the loss of a child, the heroine tries to find support in the world as well as in herself in order to become happy again.
Three aliens - Red, Blue, and Green - are hiding on Earth after their ship crashes. Red becomes fascinated by Earth's culture, Blue is determined to return home, and Green remains detached. Tensions between the sisters escalate, calling their future and place in this world into question.
A young family man Oleg is cutting off all the roots for a long-awaited move. Only his own shadow can stop him.
A timid supermarket security guard gets into a fatal confrontation with a very confident criminal element.
In a small mining town, 33-year-old human rights activist Yana Polyakova committed suicide. The local authorities, through the local power structures and the KGB, systematically persecuted the woman. Provocations, bullying, psychological pressure, and finally, torture and beatings were used. The woman was convicted for slandering a policeman who severely beat her, with the payment of huge monetary compensation in his favor. Unable to bear the injustice and cynicism, Yana Polyakova took her own life.
A radical cinematic letter about the hardships facing women in the collapsing Soviet Union. Shot in Belarus, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Siberia, these interviews and observations document the exploitation and repression of an unwavering patriarchal doctrine.
Animation dedicated to the fight against the dictatorship in Belarus and its victims. The regime has forgotten about such important concepts as freedom of opinion and human rights, the dictatorial regime sweeps away everything in its path. But freedom, first of all, is inside of us. This animation is a gesture of solidarity with all political prisoners in Belarus who were not afraid to tell the truth and are in prison now. The musician and animator of the film, in turn, also went to prison, after which this project was born.
A restless soul travels across a landscape of dreams, feelings and space. She discovers the darkness and light of a human life by getting lost in a fantastical dreamscape.
Highway patrolman accidentally witnesses the secret organisation "Men in Gray" engaged in the study of extraterrestrial organisms.
People find themselves in a garage, barricaded and hidden from the world. It is impossible to restore what happened the day before. Dealing with the situation, one of them will face an eerie truth.