Country: Belarus

Direction Aleksandr Kott

Cast Andrey Merzlikin · Pavel Derevyanko · Madlen Dzhabrailova · Veronika Nikonova

Synopsis A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.

Direction Yolande Zauberman

Cast Sasha Yakovlev · Roma Alexandrovitch · Vladimir Mashkov · Mariya Lipkina

Synopsis In 1930s Poland, it was traditional for some Christian boys to live for a time with Jewish families in order to learn a trade from Jewish craftsmen. For this reason, Ivan has gone to live on a large estate with...

Direction Darya Zhuk

Cast Alina Nasibullina · Ivan Mulin · Yuriy Borisov · Svetlana Anikey

Synopsis In 1990s Belarus, a wanderlust young DJ named Velja is derailed by a typo in a forged US Visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

Direction Dmitrii Kalashnikov

Synopsis A look at Russia from dash cam footage.

Direction Denis Skvortsov

Cast Svyatoslav Astramovich · Igor Denisov · Anna Gorshkova

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

Cast Vladimir Svirski · Vladislav Abashin · Sergeï Kolesov · Vlad Ivanov

Synopsis Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. A train is derailed not far from the village, where Sushenya, a rail worker, lives with his family. Innocent...

Direction Vladimir Petkevitch

Direction Yulia Ruditskaya

Synopsis Escaping from her daily routine, a girl gets into an imaginary city of her dreams - Seoul.

Direction Aleksandr Franskevich-Laye

Cast Aleksandr Averkov · Pavel Delong · Dmitri Egorov · Vladimir Yepifantsev

Synopsis After neutralizing a group of terrorists, Special Forces major Andrei Rubtsov loses all his comrades in a battle. Having barely survived, he finds himself in a foreign country after falling unconscious. Rubtsov then returns to his homeland and takes revenge.

Direction Andrei Kutsila

Cast Taссiana Babryckaya · Valiantsina Babryckaya

Direction Viktoria Fanasiutina

Cast Andrey Andreev · Andryusha Andreev · Victor Dobronravov · Daria Ursulyak

Direction Mitry Semenov-Aleinikov

Cast Darya Melnikova · Aleksandr Golovin · Pavel Chinaryov · Daniil Vakhrushev

Synopsis 1989, 50 km from Chernobyl. A group of friends goes on a hike. While rafting down the river, young people go astray and find themselves in the exclusion zone. By chance, on the conscience of the guys is someone else's...

Direction Victor Asliuk

Synopsis A village (Dubna) under the threat of various misfortunes: the erosion of the riverbank causes the houses to collapse, the vodka makes the men collapse … and the cows no longer obey.

Direction Aliaksei Paluyan

Cast Maryna Yakubovich · Pavel Haradnizky · Denis Tarasenka

Synopsis Fifteen years ago, frustrated with the authoritarian regime’s lack of tolerance, Maryna, Pavel and Denis left the Minsk State Theatre to perform for the newly founded Belarus Free Theatre.

Direction Liuba Zemtsova

Direction Krystsina Savutsina

Synopsis Krystsina Savutsina subtly details the daily choreographies to which the inhabitants of a Belarusian village devote or subject themselves.

Direction Nikita Lavretski

Cast Volha Kavaliova · Nikita Lavretski

Synopsis Nikita and Volha have had a dysfunctional relationship for the last 8 years. Now they play fictional Nikita and Volha who have just met. Can anything start anew at the end of history? A reflection on Belarus shot in one...

Direction Darya Yurkevich

Cast Olga Polevaya · Yulia Polevaya · Alesia Polevaya · Marina Polevaya

Synopsis Yulia, Alesia and Olya are three Belarusian sisters. They grew up in perfect harmony with their environment where they continue to live, engaging in fishing and subsistence farming. Yurkevich frames this innocent existence magnificently, in a “paradise” located… not far...

Direction Vladimir Zinkevich

Cast Vladimir Sychyov · Svetlana Kamynina · Rostislav Bershauer · Pyotr Buslov

Synopsis Leonid Ivanovich - The Godfather. In this world, he loves only two things: to be the Godfather and his daughter Mira. In order not to anger the boss, Mira is bypassed by everyone. Except for Sasha, who knew nothing about...

Direction Aleksandra Kulak

Cast Rai Man O To · Serisu

Synopsis 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...