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- After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
- A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.
- A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
- After the loss of her son, Svetlana investigates the violent culture of the Belarusian army. A group of friends soon to be enlisted, they go to rave parties and protest march following the re-election of Aleksandr Lukashenko.
- The border between Lithuania and Belarus once was a fluid border between Soviet republics. Today it is one of the forgotten European outskirts with the Schengen fence dividing communities, families, lives.
- 1943 in occupied Byelorussia. It tells the story of Franz, an SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Byelorussian woman whose village is massacred.
- A Clockwork Orange videobook.
- In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.
- A story about the dramatic fate of the national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala. The movie reveals the main milestones of the poet's life and career, coinciding with the most tragic events of the 20th century.
- Belarus has been under dictatorship of Lukashenko for 15 years. Miron (23) is not interested in politics. However, the next concert of his 'apolitical' rock band triggers off an anti-regime manifestation. Miron, is enlisted for the army for 15 months by way of punishment for 'fomenting political unrest among young people'. And this is just a beginning.. A film inspired by the story of Frank Viachorka, activist of the Belorussian opposition. Starring top Belorussian cinema and rock stars.
- A man struggles to come to grips with his tattered past after being diagnosed with a terminal disease. His physical ailment coupled with medication causes him to dream, hallucinate, remember, and sometimes regret his life. He comes into contact with various characters from his past and present and wonders if there is any humanity left in the world or within himself.
- The film shows the path of a detainee at a protest in Belarus: march and detention, a ride in a prison truck, registration at a police station, trial, prison, release and reflection on the experience.
- For several years, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich traveled around in Russia and Belarus to investigate the relationship to love of the Russian people. One, as Svetlana means, is an acute shortage of today's society.
- Comprised of smuggled footage and uncensored interviews, DANGEROUS ACTS gives audiences a front row seat to a resistance movement as it unfolds both on the stage and in the streets. As the members of the Free Theater confront the choice of either repression at home or exile in the US and the UK, DANGEROUS ACTS reconfirms our belief that the power of art and hope can indeed change the world.
- A story about a group of immigrants living in Poland.
- An inspiring and encouraging documentary about the peaceful uprising of a nation against injustice and the brutal oppression of their democracy movements.
- During the Second World War, a group of Uzbek and SSR soldiers organized an assassination attempt on Nazi leaders in the lands of the SSR occupied by the Nazis.
- In 2020 the city of Minsk, Belarus, overflows with massive anti-government protests. People take to the streets to defend their dream and object to the state of anxiety they have been living in for years. Swinging back and forth between fear and fearlessness, they look for the solidarity of the police, who have been deployed onto the streets to put an end to this same dream and mute their voices.
- On its 80th anniversary the oldest "communal flat" in Donetsk and a bunch of its unpredictable and unstable residents and their guests encounter misadventures of any imaginable kind...
- A mysterious artist appears in different districts of Minsk. He spreads his canvass and begins to paint. He creates puzzling geometric figures, rectangles and squares - The streets are alive. Curious passers-by spontaneously approach the painter and ask him questions about his work. The man never reveals what he is actually painting - he just replies with a question. He asks them what they see on the canvas. Art becomes an excuse to talk about life, the every-day reality, the state, social issues and human stories. We meet Belarusians of different generations, professions and social statuses. A tram driver, an Orthodox priest, a homeless man, a professor of history, a young mother worried about the future of her children, high school students and even a former skating coach with a broken life. Step by step we get to know the artist better. He is Zahar Cudin, one of the most promising Belarusian painters. What is the artist painting? What is the mystery behind the mysterious rectangles and squares? The explanation will be a great surprise - It is a film about contemporary Belarus shown from a new fresh perspective. It reveals the secret of the "last dictatorship of Europe".
- Waiting her entire life for the pilot she once felt in love with a former flight attendant is planning her own funeral.
- In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
- Interlocking narratives, told out of chronological order, about partisans in the Second World War who are a band of nihilistic marauders, roaming the countryside and dispensing what they see as justice to those they consider collaborators with the enemy.
- Story of two brothers who are living in Western Belarus under Polish rule.
- Valery Liashkevich is a homeless artist who for over twenty years has painted pictures in the streets of the town of Gomel in Belarus. The documentary was made with private money to support this extremely talented artist.
- Aliona's father, a silent dissident and Chernobyl engineer, mysteriously disappears into the sea one day. Twenty years later, Aliona leaves her country, Belarus, to write a novel about this story, in a language other than her own.
- A young gentry from an impoverished Orthodox family is forced to flee from the Minsk Jesuit Collegium, having avenged the death of his friend to a Latin teacher. On the way, Prantish accidentally becomes the owner of an unusual "property".
- An insider's look at Belarusian regime through the eyes of its most creative citizens. The struggle for freedom of expression in Europe's last dictatorship.
- A young Belarusian artist leaves her husband behind in Minsk to visit her friend, the elderly painter Andrzej Strumillo, in his idyllic manor house in Poland. For her, the trip offers a welcome diversion from city life; for him, it's a break from a lonely existence marked by old age. The pleasant routine of drawing, talking, horse-riding and chores around the house is interrupted only by calls from the artist's husband, who wants her to come home. But she wants to stay longer-she isn't finished here yet.
- A harrowing and brave response to dictatorship.
- Three months before elections the president of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko claimed: "You have no other choice, you will vote for me!" This is exactly how it happened in March 2006.
- In Chemerisy, a remote part of Belarus, time follows the rhythm of subsistence activities. It is in this beautiful countryside where Yulia, Alesia and Olya grew up next to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
- 'Horizon sky' is the first independent full length drama shot in Belarus over the past 10 years. This is a youth drama, the main character is a young rock musician Nikita. This is a story of a young generation of Belorussian, who in the last non-free society in Europe are trying to find their place and their happiness, including through creativity. But the search is complicated because Nikita HIV find. In a society in which there is no tolerance, but there are discrimination, fear and lack of understanding of such people, HIV can ruin his life. But Nikita fights and wins.
- The documentary film is a study of the problems of Ukrainian language in Ukraine. It debunks common myths about Ukrainian language, and explains how those were created, ultimately showing that language is the root of personal identity.
- Confused Roman Catholics discover their true catholic faith through Latin Mass.
- In Belarus, the totalitarian regime cracks down on all opposition. Anyone criticizing the dictator risks imprisonment and torture. Our film, Belarusian Waltz is on the incredible personal story of the performance artist Alexander Pushkin, who is one of very few who is not scared. Facing grave consequences he organizes public stunts that mock president Lukashenka. Through his art and sense of humour we take a deep dive into the soul of the Belarusian people.
- Women Who Held Flowers - it's a story about the unexpected revolution of Belarusian women that means so much more than just a political engagement.
- A heart-warming portrait documentary "Shusha" explores in intimate atmosphere the daily life of Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich, the first head of state of Belarus. What is his daily routine like and what is on mind of a man, who a quarter of a century ago initiated Belavezha accords, signed by Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, which were the basis to effectively dissolve the Soviet Union. Shushkevich, who every now and then likes to play Vyssotski's earlier songs on a piano just to himself or his closest friends, is one of the Great Men of contemporary history, whose 'domino effect' initiative caused a geopolitical shift in Europe. However, what Shushkevich himself considers as his greatest achievement is not sending 'a sixth of the planet' to meet its maker but making a post-independent Belarus a nuclear weapon free state. "Shusha" is a positive story about a theme of remaining a human being.
- Documentary about vanishing cultural traditions of Belarus