Vasil Granouski is 58. He's living in a village, where he leads a local choir. It consists of only elderly performers. The harmonic Vasil plays is also old, and it lacks a couple of keys. His car, in which he drivers the singers around, is faulty and doesn't always start.
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.
“We are living on the edge”, says a simple peasant woman from Dubna, a village in Hrodna region. These words sound symbolic: the village is situated on the steep bank of the Neman, and the river keeps undermining the houses and the plots making the villagers seek for new lands.
Two friends set off on a journey along the borders of Belarus on Chinese bicycles with gasoline engines. 47 days of travel, endless breakdowns and dozens of random encounters add up to sketches about the life of the outskirts of the most Soviet of all post-Soviet countries. Villagers, students, rappers, drunks. The long road gradually erases the line between reality and cinema, and with each kilometer it becomes more difficult to distinguish one from the other.
Having gotten lost in the woods, a teenage girl slips into the past and spends a summer day with her mother at fifteen. In shared conversations and small moments, she gets to know her mother from new sides and learns that growing up feels the same in every time.
Love is an intentional practice, a skill, a choice, and a path to growth, breaking cycles, and fostering universal connection.
This is the film about woman's autumn. Her photo was published in numerous newspapers. She appeared on TV. She got thousands of letters with proposals of friendship and love. Some time all Soviet Union knew her. Maria is the name of a tractor heroine famous in the Soviet era, now alone in her cottage in the country.
Wedding traditions of Polesie.
Film closely depicts christmas caroling from Polesie.
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.
A choice... Does it even exist? And if it does, what should one do with it?
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.
A film about two times refugees and their ability to maintain creativity in a time of political terror, repressed culture and fatal bombings. The experience of Belarusian creators who went through two catastrophic transformations in a short period of time. Their lives have been destroyed twice in two years, but they have the strength and energy to carry on. Create and inspire others. They establish Belarus outside the geographical borders of Belarus.
A convoluted murder story with no beginning or end.
Wadzim and Staś own a agritourism destination. They believe that the 2020 season will be successful because a very rare astronomical phenomenon, the so-called Planet Parade that occurs every 100 years. However, the unexpected events that began after the Presidential elections do not go according to plan.
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.
Maxim, yearning for the departing image of old Minsk, meets his friend Yanka, whom he had not seen for a year while he was studying in America ...
