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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.

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.

A Belarusian journalist's covert livestream of government crackdowns on peaceful protesters after rigged elections leads to her arrest. Her husband remains by her side, facing consequences from a regime bent on breaking them.

An inspiring and encouraging documentary about the peaceful uprising of a nation against injustice and the brutal oppression of their democracy movements.

From the thick snow of the Belarusian forest to the heat of the reeds in the French Camargue, Mother Vera is the story of a young Orthodox nun; her turbulent past, and fragile future.

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.

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".

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.

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.

A story about a group of immigrants living in Poland.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

Waiting her entire life for the pilot she once felt in love with a former flight attendant is planning her own funeral.

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.

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.

Victor Asliuk's contrast of rural and urban life in Belarus examines the tangible differences between the young in the city and the elderly in the village and between modernity and tradition, interspersing modern images with archive material depicting the countryside as it used to be.

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.

A harrowing and brave response to 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 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'.