Choice

Choice 2024

1

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

2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who Goes There?

Who Goes There? 2020

5.50

Belarusian poet Yanka Kupala wrote his verse "And, say, who goes there?" more than 100 years ago. And now, when the call for change is heard, only the bravest dare to come out of the forest and at least look: "Who goes there?"

2020

Lake of Happiness

Lake of Happiness 2019

7.00

In a small Belarusian village where time seems to stand still, Jasja must deal with her mother's death. She takes every duty upon herself to fill the void a mother has left behind. Someone must hold the pieces together. Still, her father decides to send her to an orphanage with the promise of returning. When he fails to show up, she decides to run away and go back home instead.

2019

Liberté

Liberté 2020

1

Anna's son is a drug addict. Mother has a plan on how to get rid of his addiction. An Interpol investigator who runs the case of Anna’s husband becomes an obstacle to the implementation of her plan. He is confident that a woman can help him get the necessary information. Anna has to find out that truth has its own power, that there is guilt that cannot be accepted, and love that cannot be abandoned.

2020

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

Epilogue

Epilogue 1994

1

Based on the works of Ivan Shamyakin. The heroes of the film are representatives of the creative intelligentsia. Yesterday, their works were considered a national treasure, but now they are no longer needed. The famous writer Ivan Andreevich is forced to earn a living by selling his own books with autographs. More fortunate was his friend, the famous artist Mikhail Antonovich. All his paintings were bought by a western collector. But the banquet arranged by the artist on this occasion turned out to be completely depressing...

1994

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Sniper. Officer SMERSH

The Sniper. Officer SMERSH 2020

1

The story of the irreconcilable confrontation between two professional snipers, senior lieutenant of the special department Egorov and Lieutenant Lother Von Dibitz, which began in 1943 in the siege of Stalingrad and continued in 1944 in the forests of Belarus.

2020

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

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