Belarusian Documentary Captures Hope Amid State Repression

At least 65,000 politically motivated arrests and detentions since 2020; opposition activist Vitold Ashurak died under suspicious circumstances in prison custody.

In the years since Belarus's 2020 uprising, the silence imposed by Alexander Lukashenko's government has grown so total that a filmmaker in exile had to reconstruct his country's inner life from prison letters alone. Andrei Kutsila's documentary, premiering at Venice in September 2026, bears witness to over 65,000 politically motivated arrests and a diaspora of hundreds of thousands — not as statistics, but as correspondence, as drawings, as the stubborn human insistence on being heard. What the film ultimately asks is whether solidarity, passed between cell walls in handwritten words, can out

Belarusian Documentary Captures Hope Amid State Repression

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