Mikalai Kuprych

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The Okrestin Sisters is a Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) and Creatives Politics Hub production, shot and directed by a film-maker and BFT ensemble member, Kolya Kuprich. This short captures the first moments upon the release and the immediate witness accounts of three BFT members who were arrested in Minks on August 9th 2020, following the Presidential Election. BFT's General Managers, Nadia Brodskaya and Svetlana Sugako, along with the BFT actor Dasha Andreyanova were rounded up and detained while peacefully waiting for the results of the election at a local polling station. What followed their detention, was a surreal cascade of a Kafkaesque, bureaucratic judiciary system met by brutal, Gestapo-type assault on innocent citizens of Belarus. All happening away from the cameras, behind closed doors, inside authoritarian prisons. The creators of the film want the shed light on what took place in Belarusian prisons during the detentions of August 9-14.

"Tsentralny" is a documentary about the simplest and most legendary place in Minsk. The film, which was made during and after the work on the performance of the same name by the theater laboratory Fortinbras at the Belarus Free Theater (directed by Vladimir Scherban). Tsentralny is a store. Tsentralny is a bad joke. Tsentralny - is cheap beer and Belarus balm and Sprite, if you're a student, punk or rock musician in the 90s. Tsentralny is cheap vodka if you're a philharmonic director or an Afghan war veteran. Central is Ts., Tsekh, Tsentralka. Tsentralny is a documentary about life parallel to the main avenue.

Gays from Belarus are trying to live in a country where their existence is denied. The main characters create their own parallel reality filled with alcohol and parties in an escape from loneliness and in search of love.