ജനപ്രിയമായത് മുതൽ Belarus

Documentary short by Volha Dashuk about amateur filmmaker Anatol Schneider.

Based on the Belarus tale "Ад крадзенага — не пасыцееш". The villager had two sons. Time has come and father brought them to get a job. Then one of the sons said that he don't want to work and will be stealing the oxen instead.

Wedding traditions of Polesie.

Traditional marriage matchmaking in Polesie.

Film closely depicts christmas caroling from Polesie.

The father of the main character is invited to the All-Belarusian People's Assembly. There, he is shaken by the hand of President Lukashenko himself. This fact causes very strong emotions in the father, as a result of which he goes on a long-term binge. During the binge, presidential elections are held in Belarus, in which the opposition unexpectedly wins. Belarus is transformed into a classic capitalist system. Worried about his father's life, the son decides to hide this fact from him.

Breaking taboos: Belarusian contemporary artist Aliaksei Kuzmich gives us the keys to understanding his art of action.

Set on the Kazakh steppe in 1913 under the dual oppression of local reactionaries and Tsarist rule, the story follows Botagundz, a once-ignorant girl who, inspired by the exiled Kuznetsov, awakens to revolutionary truth. Transformed into a resolute communist fighter, she dedicates herself to overthrowing the old regime and helping establish the Kazakh Soviet government for her people’s liberation.

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.

The main character is in the Minsk pre-trial detention center on Volodarsky st., which in 2020 became the main place of imprisonment for people who took part in the protests. This place is the so-called „foster of intellectuals”, because a large number of Belarusian intelligentsia served their terms there, starting from the time of the famous and significant Kalinovsky uprising in the XIXth century.

The political situation in Belarus forced Dima to flee the country. Fearing for loved ones, she constantly keeps in touch with those who had to stay there. Despite all efforts to arrange his life in Poland, he still has to fight the shadow of the past.

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 .

This nonfiction film captures a few days in the lives of two strikingly different people who have only one thing in common: Belarus, their country of origin. Misha is the first one. He lives with his mother and stepfather in a village called Podorosk. Misha is a history teacher, regional historian, and the founder of a local history museum. He educates children and loves his homeland. The other one is Edik. A travesti performer, a journalist. The founder of the first LGBT community in Belarus. He was forced to leave the country and now lives in Kyiv. Edik entertains young people and holds no particular love for his motherland.

Can one triumph over death when it always comes unexpectedly? It is too early to die no matter how old you are, isn't it? Autumn. An old village in a Belarusian remote place. An elderly man is starting to objectify his fight... The director shows a portrait of the man through revealing his spirit, character, willpower in a single act while leaving the details of his life history off-screen as unnecessary. The action on the screen will provoke the viewer to put themselves in the main character’s shoes inviting them possibly to feel and/or possibly to realise their own lifetime limitation.

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.

Everyone in the yard knows the eccentric Oleg, but no one knows where he goes on his two-wheeled tractor...

The Belarusian village Lubeiki is inhabited solely by women. They not only outlived their husbands, but their children as well. Nevertheless, they have immense vitality and will to live. In the words of one of the main characters, "life is short, but sweet." In the film, they sift through their memories and share with us their wisdom.

2 couples – one gay and one straight. Their delicate romance.

This project has been developed for 10 years and consists of several visual sketches on different topics. The main thing here is to observe life in all its manifestations