Letters
“Letters” is a hybrid documentary following five individuals from Belarus whose lives were shattered by state violence and political repression. Through personal letters written from prison, exile, and underground life, the film tells stories of protest, captivity, escape, and moral resistance underscored by the haunting question of how much must be sacrificed in the pursuit of a nation’s liberation. Combining observation, found footage, archival material, and animation using drawings created in confinement, “Letters” gives voice to those the regime tried to silence. These are voices that speak not only of pain, but of dignity, solidarity, love, and the fight to remain human.
Victory Day
For Wojtek, a representative of the generation raised in a free Poland, war had been an abstract concept – until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A sense of helplessness and shame first drove him to volunteer at the border, and then deeper into Ukraine. However, the sight of victims and ruins did not give him an answer to the question about the source of evil. Seeking a confrontation with the “Russian world,” yet unable to cross the border of the Russian Federation, the director travels to an extraordinary place – Barentsburg, a Russian mining settlement located on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard – to witness the celebration of the "Victory day".