Lyubov Zemtsova
Directing
Biography
Lyubov Zemtsova is a Belarusian documentary director. She was born in Minsk in the family of the television editor and screenwriter Svetlana Zemtsova. At the age of 17, on the basis of the Children's Center for Technical Creativity, she shot the first experimental work, The Cell. In 2014 she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (major: directing a documentary, workshop of M.A. Zhdanovsky). In 2020, with the support of the Czech television channel “Current Time”, together with the director Yuliya Shatun, she released a series of documentaries “Unknown Belarus”. She died on May 22, 2020 due to injuries sustained in a car accident.
Known For
Yuri and Alexander are veterans of the Afghan war. For many years they celebrate Victory Day together.
Victory Day
Minsk Komarovsky market is the main food market in Belarus. People call it “Komarovka”. It organically coexists people of all ages, backgrounds and characters. While for some the market has become a second home, others continue to dream of more.
Unknown Belarus. Komarovka
For nearly 10 years, Belarus has had a Shelter — place for women victims of domestic violence. This is a big private house in Minsk. Many victims are brought here directly in their home clothes — the only thing they were able to escape from the aggressor. Belarus has not yet adopted a law on combating domestic violence. In this issue, you will find out the real stories of residents of the Shelter, what problems not only clients but also employees of the shelter have to face, and why it is so important to pass a law.
Unknown Belarus. Shelter
Belarus is the only country in Europe where there is still a compulsory assignment of students studying at the expense of the state budget. The best graduates of the country who have passed a large competition for admission and who have earned the right to study for free with their knowledge are sent to places where no one else agrees to work due to difficult working conditions and lack of infrastructure.
Unknown Belarus. Assignment
This is a love story. In a place that is not intended for this at all. The events of the film unfold in the day stay group of people with disabilities. And only the inner beauty and strength of the heroes of the film turn it into a "Place of Love." This is a story about all of us, about the pursuit of happiness, inner beauty, sincerity - that there are no differences between all of us.
Place of Love
This is the story of a young girl who lives like most of us between love and hate, quarrels, unfulfilled dreams and hope for a better tomorrow.