Films Volunteers and Love in Belarusian to be Screened in Warsaw
- 30.09.2015, 19:28
Love in Belarusian and Volunteers tells about the struggle of Belarusians against the repressive system inside the country and against pro-Russian militants in Donsbas.
It is reported by Belsat TV channel.
The film screening in Warsaw is organised by Free Belarus initiative, Belsat TV channel and a local café Państwo Miasto.
It is planned that after the screening protagonists of the film Love in Belarusian, Anastasiya and Dzmitry Dashkevich, and the filmmaker of Volunteers Anton Tsyalezhnikau, will meet with the audience.
Volunteers (a documentary, by Anton Tsyalezhnikau, 2015)
“Through binoculars they see the ruins of Donetsk airport. When it was destroyed by separatists, and Ukrainians had to leave the rubble – they became the first line of defence between Ukraine and the pro-Russian Donetsk People’s Republic. Separatists hate and fear them. These people do not belong to the official military forces, they are not paid salaries, the state does not equip them with arms. They went go their first assaults armed by knives. They are united by their fight for a free Ukraine. The main characters of the film are fighters of the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps “The Right Sector.”
Some people view them as an illegal military formation, others as heroes of Ukraine. In reality they are all manner of men, most of them are people who speak Russian, and they are not engaged in politics, far from that. There are Belarusians among them as well. For a month the Belarusian documentarian had been working under fire, risking his live at the front, to show the real foreign face of the defenders of the village of Peski.”
Love in Belarusian (a documentary by Andrei Kutsila, Viachaslau Rakitski, 2013)
“For Anastasiya Palazhanka and Dzmityr Dashkevich Love in Belarusian is love through prison bars. After the protest rallies in December 2010 they were imprisoned. After serving her term in the KGB remand prison, Anastasiya received a suspended sentence of one year, and Dzmitry was thrown behind the bars for 2 years.
While in prison, Anastasiya and Dzmitry got married, and Anastasiya changed her surname for Dashkevich. In August 2013 the young man was released. The prisoners have written thousands of letters to each other, and these letters will reveal us what do Belarusians, who had fallen in love in the times of dictatorship, feel.”