The j
oint panel discussion organized by the Northern Lights Nordic Baltic Film Festival in Belarus and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
will take place on
November 24 at 17:00 at the Nordic Hotel Forum, Tallinn.
After the 2020 revolution and subsequent severe repressions in Belarus, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes and start life anew. Now, independent Belarusian filmmakers reside all over the world but are unable to travel back to their homeland and film there. The risk of being imprisoned and subjected to torture is way too high to take it. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, little has changed in the Belarusian film industry. Even with international funding, independent filmmaking has been barely surviving since then. In 2020, the hope for development and change was pushed even further back, and now independent Belarusian cinema has to find ways to survive and thrive in exile. How do we solidify the community in exile and find resources and mechanisms to move on in life and filmmaking? We explore Belarusian, Estonian, and international experiences.
Panel speakers:
Andrei Kutsila, film director (Belarus);
Sasha Kulak, director, DOP, and photographer (Belarus);
Alina Koushyk, representative of the United Transitional Cabinet for National Revival (Belarus);
Volia Chajkouskaya, director of Northern Lights Nordic Baltic Film Festival, producer, and film director (Belarus/Estonia);
Marianna Kaat, film director and producer (Estonia)
Moderator: Ben Dalton, reporter for Screen International (UK);Language of the event: English;
Registration is available until
November 23th.
