Choice 2024
A choice... Does it even exist? And if it does, what should one do with it?
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.
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.
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 snowstorm. An endless snowfield. Snow that never ends. A herd of white horses rushes past a chain of prisoners, dragging through the eternal night. As shadow intersects with light, so does death intersect with life. And this spontaneity is never-ending.
A creature takes up residence in a young man's room and feeds him but, at the same time, kills him. His life is falling apart, and he has no choice but to fight to the death against this dependency.
Belarusians did not even discuss under which flag to unite. Memory and respect for the white-red-white banner has always lived in their hearts, and now, through pain and suffering, it has awakened and inspired the nation to move forward.
Belarusian poet Yanka Kupala wrote his verse "And, say, who goes there?" more than 100 years ago. And now, when the call for change is heard, only the bravest dare to come out of the forest and at least look: "Who goes there?"
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.
Druya is a small and old town. The most fascinating about it is not its history, not specific dates and names of people, but the atmosphere. Looking at the surviving walls and furnishings, the imagination itself depicts the history of this place. Sometimes in the empty half-abandoned architectural monuments one can feel the rumble of past epochs, the weight of centuries oversaturated with events.
An old woman lives in a remote village in Belarus. As the end of her live approaches, she starts to read the worn-out notebooks of her daughter. Together we go on a journey to the unknown world of a person who is abandoned and forgotten by everybody.
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.
Documentary short by Volha Dashuk about amateur filmmaker Anatol Schneider.
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.
Traditional marriage matchmaking in Polesie.
Film closely depicts christmas caroling from Polesie.
According to the plot, which is not inferior in intrigue to foreign analogues, honorary members of Chinchinchenel Sergey Nikolaevich and Nikolai Sergeevich arrive at the Lyad psychiatric hospital No. 1 to visit a mysterious patient, Elena Stomach. And nothing foreshadows anything unexpected, but further events will make even a sophisticated moviegoer raise an eyebrow in surprise.