Belarusian Competition
This year, the Belarusian program of the Northern Lights Film Festival brought together all the emotional nuances that our society has lived through, creating a true gemstone of Belarusian cinema.
This year's program includes pictures that documentarily and poetically portray the events of August 2020; films that sustain the discussion about gender equality and female leadership in Belarus; an audioplay that conveys the homely atmosphere of Minsk familiar to all; cinematic statements, in which the authors seek the creative ways to express their opinions; and, of course, the stories of Belarusians, who were forced to flee their Home and are searching for the new ones in other cities.
Watch the Northern Lights' Belarusian program to feel at home no matter where you are.
This year's program includes pictures that documentarily and poetically portray the events of August 2020; films that sustain the discussion about gender equality and female leadership in Belarus; an audioplay that conveys the homely atmosphere of Minsk familiar to all; cinematic statements, in which the authors seek the creative ways to express their opinions; and, of course, the stories of Belarusians, who were forced to flee their Home and are searching for the new ones in other cities.
Watch the Northern Lights' Belarusian program to feel at home no matter where you are.
Movies are for individual viewing only.
OFFLINE
BORDERLINE. WHERE THE WORLD ENDS
SHIREY MARA
Dir. Anna Savchenko | Belgium, Lithuania | 2021 | 53 min. | Documentary | Offline (Vilnius) 22.11
Dir. Nata Korneyeva | Belarus | 2021 | 10 min. | Animation | Offline (Vilnius) 22.11
WHEN FLOWERS ARE NOT SILENT
MARA
Dir. Andrei Kutsila | Poland | 2021 | 71 min. | Documentary | Offline (Tallinn) 24.11
Dir. Sasha Kulak | France, United Kingdom | 2021 | 61 min. | Hybrid | Offline (Vilnius) 23.11 | Offline (Tallinn) 25.11
ONLINE
HANDBOOK
DOMUM
Dir. Pavel Mozhar | Belarus, Germany | 2021 | 26 min. | Documentary | Online (Only in Belarus) 24.11
Dir. Maxim Siry | Belarus | 2020 | 60 min. | Documentary | Online 26.11
MARA
ALONE
Dir. Sasha Kulak | France, United Kingdom | 2021 | 61 min. | Hybrid | Online 25.11
Dir. Nicolai Khalezin, Natalia Kaliada, Andrew Smith | Great Britain| 2020 | 83 min. | Documentary | Online 21.11
A DATE IN MINSK
DIMA
Dir. Nikita Lavretski | Belarus | 2022 | 88 min. | Documentary | Online (Only in Belarus) 27.11
Dir. Dima Dedok | Belarus | 2020 | 28 min. | Documentary | Online 24.11
SUMMER OF '89
ACROSS THE RAILS
Dir. Vladimir Kozlov | Belarus | 2022 | 82 min. | Fiction | Online 28.11
Dir. Antos Sivyh | Belarus, Poland | 2021 | 40 min. | Documentary | Online 30.11
SHIREY MARA
Dir. Nata Korneyeva | Belarus | 2021 | 10 min. | Animation | Online 22.11