Belarus 23.34

Dir. Tatsiana Svirepa | Denmark, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus | 2023

Against oblivion: the events of August 2020, as told by witnesses and protest movement participants

65 min.

Documentary

private screening

Belarus 23.34

Dir. Tatsiana Svirepa | Denmark, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus | 2023

Against oblivion: the events of August 2020, as told by witnesses and protest movement participants

private screening

65 min.

Documentary

"Belarus 23.34" is the collection of stories of Belarusians in the face of repression: a guy who simply rode a bicycle in the city center past the Minsk Hero City Obelisk and ended up in hell in country's most brutal detention center on Okrestina street; a plumber who got off at the "Frunzenskaya" subway station, because the train was no longer running that day, a few minutes later already found himself lying on the pavement with the heel on his his foot torn off; a mother of seven children who went in the police van - avtozak - to protect her son and saw him being marked with red paint, the label of the protesters; a female doctor who was first teargassed in a police lorry and then forced to duck and run through the corridors of the regional prison...
25 interviews with brave people who accounted for how they survived detention and torture in August-December of 2020, what they feel, and what, in their opinion, has now changed in Belarusian society.

About the film

Original language: Belarusian, Russian

Subtitles: English

The film is reviewed by an international jury

"Belarus 23.34" is the collection of stories of Belarusians in the face of repression: a guy who simply rode a bicycle in the city center past the Minsk Hero City Obelisk and ended up in hell in country's most brutal detention center on Okrestina street; a plumber who got off at the "Frunzenskaya" subway station, because the train was no longer running that day, a few minutes later already found himself lying on the pavement with the heel on his his foot torn off; a mother of seven children who went in the police van - avtozak - to protect her son and saw him being marked with red paint, the label of the protesters; a female doctor who was first teargassed in a police lorry and then forced to duck and run through the corridors of the regional prison...
25 interviews with brave people who accounted for how they survived detention and torture in August-December of 2020, what they feel, and what, in their opinion, has now changed in Belarusian society.

About the film

Original language: Belarusian, Russian

Subtitles: English

The film is reviewed by an international jury

Belarus 23.34

About the film

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