Across the Rails

Across the Rails 2022

1

2021 was a turning point for Belarus and 6 Belarusian students - as well as for the city of Łódź, Poland, in which they found themselves. Across the rails of change and transformation, documenting a time that has not been before and will not repeat again. Heroes of the film have very different fates and experiences, but they are all connected by the place they found themselves in - the post-industrial and post-apocalyptic city, which becomes a part of their story and a hero of its own. Students, transport, quaters, youth, revolution, local apocalypse, changes and turns - they all mix in a documentary kaleidoscope 'Across the Rails'.

2022

Red Dog

Red Dog 2016

3.50

On the Eastern front in 1941, German troops attack a Red Army's field hospital destroying it and causing a massive loss of life. The surviving soldiers try to fight back but have to retreat, among them a young pilot , Vyacheslav with his dog Red. Having survived the German onslaught they are sent to the front line where Red will prove his courage...

2016

Choice

Choice 2024

1

A choice... Does it even exist? And if it does, what should one do with it?

2024

A Nook of One's Bliss

A Nook of One's Bliss 2024

1

Deeply religious Sima lives in the shadow of her parents' strict guidance but seems content with her choices. She turns down an unexpected offer to work as a model. On her nameday, Sima is overtaken by a vaguely familiar nightmare: she pulls her hand away from her mother's touch, as if from a flame, and when her father calls her "a pure angel of God," she storms away from the festive table. Rosary. Icon. Meat. A candle. Rosary. Hands. Not hers. Cross. Scream. Meat. Fire. But not here, just not here. This cannot be happening.

2024

Long Live Belarus

Long Live Belarus 2021

10.00

Over 50 animators from 19 countries collaborated to support Belarusians in their peaceful protests for fair elections and freedom. The animators offered their interpretation of the recent events in Belarus, creating the animated chronicles of these dramatic events. The white-red-white flag is a historical symbol of Belarus and has become a symbol of peace, protest, and hope for the people of Belarus. The youngest animator who participated in the project is only 12 years old.

2021

Granny, Vanya and the Goat

Granny, Vanya and the Goat 2015

1

Set in a small, typical Belarusian village – granny Sima’s only concern is for the future of her alcoholic son, Vanya. Accompanied by her best friend, a white goat called Manya, she starts a war with her neighbor, Glasha, who happens to be the village Vodka maker…

2015

Motherland

Motherland 2023

7.00

Svetlana has lost her son who was found dead while he was in the army. As she tries to shed light on the culture of violence and abuse in the Belarusian military, a group of young friends from the techno underground soon face being drafted themselves. They go to rave parties in undershirts and round sunglasses, but in a moment the party could be over – at least until huge protests break out in the streets following the recent ‘re-election’ of dictator-president and Putin sympathiser, Aleksandr Lukashenko. A glimmer of hope and a promise of change, which only causes the brutality of the authoritarian society to erupt in full force.

2023

Song about Friendship

Song about Friendship 1941

6.50

Fedya Yatsevich is going to a holiday home, his wife Lara - on a business trip to Zaraysk, for the whole summer. Their large apartment remains empty. At the same time, a friend of Larisa, Alesia, whom Lara persuadedto live in their apartment, was sent to the city from Zaraysk to the amateur olympiad. Fedya meets an old friend Ryhor Shemet and also allows him to live in his room, not knowing that Lara did the same with her friend. Living under the same roof, Alesya and Rygor begin to feel sympathy for each other...

1941

Kupala

Kupala 2020

8.60

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.

2020

Task for you

Task for you 2004

10.00

Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Cherginets. The film begins in the spring of 1941 and ends with the first months after the liberation of Belarus. In the center of the plot of the film – the story of three brothers Kuprevich. Police Lieutenant Alexei Kuprevich receives an appointment as an operative in one of the districts of Western Belarus. His task – to neutralize the rampant gang there "forest brothers". War begins. Alex and his brother, senior police Lieutenant Peter Kuprevich receive the first combat mission: to destroy the landed settlements under the German assault...

2004

Woman from the Killed Village

Woman from the Killed Village 1975

1

One of the five-part documentary series by Belarusian writer and director Viktor Dashuk, which recounts the horrors experienced by the Belarusian people during World War II, through firsthand accounts of survivors and newsreel footage.

1975

Belarusian Dream

Belarusian Dream 2011

1

A film about dreams and ambitions in the Belarus through the eyes of the younger generation. An insight into the recent history of Belarus and the growing movement for change in 'Europe's last dictatorship'.

2011

Infocused

Infocused 2020

1

A group of students finds themselves in an academic environment, which hides a terrifiying danger. Should they stay? Where to expect a menace from? What would happen if they try to leave? Students are forced to find it all out by themselves, without getting any hints.

2020

Forgotten in Narvilishky

Forgotten in Narvilishky 2014

1

A bitter twist of fate: during the drawing of demarcation lines between the Soviet Republics in 1939 nobody dared remove Stalin’s pipe from the map, consequently the borders were drawn around it. It was thus that the Belarusian village of Narvilishky ended up being allocated to Lithuania. At the time nobody foresaw the implications of this decision.

2014

Co-op Politburo, or Will be a Long Farewell

Co-op Politburo, or Will be a Long Farewell 1992

2.80

An entrepreneurial young man organizes an unusual cooperative. Its members are doubles of prominent political figures, each of whom left a noticeable mark in Russian history. Like the propaganda teams of the recent past, this team travels around the country. Everyone communicates with the people in accordance with their image, and often the audience perceives the double as its prototype - and reacts accordingly ...

1992

Strip and War

Strip and War 2019

1

The film tells the story of a small family, consisting of a grandfather retired from the army, and his stripper grandson. It is not just a story of a relationship, but rather a reflection of entire Belarus and the post-Soviet, pro-Russian world. Moreover, it's a universally-recognized reflection of a generation gap.

2019

Sunny Bunnies

Sunny Bunnies 2015

2.70

Furry little bunnies hop through wild adventures as they find solutions, fun and sometimes mischief wherever there is light.

2015

Vocation

Vocation 2005

10.00

The story of the film is based on real historical events. The most famous crimes from the mid-eighties of the last century to the present day have been used as the basis for the detective plots of the picture. The main character, Oleg Krainov, after serving in the army, comes to Moscow to enroll in the acting department at VGIK.

2005

The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room 1998

7.00

A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.

1998

Women in a Game Without Rules

Women in a Game Without Rules 2004

1

The story is about why people's destinies are intertwined, how they influence each other and how this changes the world around us.

2004

Hunting the Gauletier

Hunting the Gauletier 2012

1.00

In 1941 Minsk is overrun by the Germans and social order is obliterated. Choices must be made - cooperate with the occupying forces or resist? A mini-series about surviving in the most uncertain times.

2012

Your Honor

Your Honor 2007

1

The characters of the series are ordinary - in the broadest sense of the word - people... just like any of us. They face the same problems as we do, live in the same country with us and have rights common to all Russian citizens... The place of action is the court.

2007

Fortress of War

Fortress of War 2011

1

June 21, 1941, Brest fortress. Lieutenant Andrey Kizhevatov, Major Pyotr Gavrilov and Commissar Yefim Fomin were engaged in daily business. There was also a boy trumpeter Sasha Akimov from the regimental orchestra, who secretly smoked and selflessly loved the girl Vera. None of the servicemen knew that the next morning they would become the commanders of the last three hotbeds of resistance, and the boy was the only link between them in the stone cauldron of the first object of attack by Nazi troops in the USSR, the Brest Fortress.

2011

Team

Team 2004

1

The Torpedo provincial football team has been taking the last places in the standings for the past season. During the next match, the team members arrange a fight with the opponent right on the battlefield. This incident becomes the last straw in the coach's cup of patience, and he leaves Torpedo.

2004

The Dark Horse

The Dark Horse 2003

1

There is a certain brigade calling itself the "Dark Horse", which specializes in eliminating people it dislikes, and in various ways. And everyone - from Interpol to the relatives of the victims - is looking for criminals, but they cannot find them...

2003