مشهور کان Belarus

In 2020, the biggest protests against the government to date formed in Belarus. The protesters were met with violence and restrictions, many of them were given draconian prison sentences. A dangerous climate that sought to nip political activism in the bud took hold. For “Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus,” Juliane Tutein filmed and researched for three years in a country that had not seen a change of elites with its supposed independence in 1991. She discovered mainly women at the forefront of the courageous protesters. This portrait is dedicated to three of them: Nina Baginskaya, in her mid-seventies and active in the fight for an open Belarus since the 1980s, Tatsyana “Tanya” Hatsura-Yavorskaya, founder of the human rights film festival “Watch Docs”, and Darya Rublevskaya, the youngest at 22, who works for the “Viasna” human rights centre founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski.

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.

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.

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

Love is an intentional practice, a skill, a choice, and a path to growth, breaking cycles, and fostering universal connection.

A father and son go fishing. Years go by — yet one thing remains constant. A symbolic drama about the inexorable passage of time.

Filming was carried out in the village of Dzerzhinsk (until 1939 - Radilovichi) in the Lelchitsky district of the Gomel region in 1992 using local legends and tales, conspiracies, songs and rituals of the autumn cycle, traditional crafts.

Documentary short by Volha Dashuk about amateur filmmaker Anatol Schneider.

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.

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 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.

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.

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...'

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.

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.

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.