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:: Two movies about Belarus on the "International Film Festival WATCH DOCS", 5-12.12, Warsaw
MK, www.watchdocs.pl, 2009-12-06
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 Warsaw's 9th annual International Film Festival WATCH DOCS is set to open on 4 December 2009. The festival competition offers the Warsaw premieres of the world's top documentary films broadly related to issues of human rights. Among other, there are two movies concerning problems of Belarus: "The Kingdom of Dead Mice" and "Waltz".
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The Kingdom of Dead Mice - this film is opening the Festival!
Korolewstwo Dochlych Myszej
Time: 88'
Belarus
Direcor: Viktor Daszuk
Cinematography: Viktor Daszuk
Editing: Viktor Daszuk
Production: Viktor Daszuk
Translation: Grzegorz Wi¶niewski, MAart
Year: 2009
In his latest film, Viktar Dashuk remains an uncompromising investigative film maker and accuser of the Belarusian dictatorship. "Kingdom of Dead Mice" is a constant spectacle of the regime's propaganda excesses, which reach the epitome of absurdity in attempts to create a plebian phantasmagoria of power. Lukashenka appears a dangerous psychopath, much like a Caligari leading his country into the abyss using sociotechnical tricks. In a film that relies mostly on official footage from Belarusian television, Dashuk devotes an equal amount of time to all those who take part in the dictatorship for money, career or just to be left in peace. With bitter sarcasm he exposes sycophants, politicians that laugh in public at the tyrant's jokes, and artist-sellouts whose only task is to legitimize the existing system.
Screenings
2009-12-05 (Saturday), 19:30
Sala Laboratorium
Centrum Sztuki Wspó³czesnej
Zamek Ujazdowski
ul. Jazdów 2
Q & A with the film director after the screening
2009-12-08 (Tuesday), 18:00
Sala Edukacyjna
Centrum Sztuki Wspó³czesnej
Zamek Ujazdowski
ul. Jazdów 2
Waltz
Walc
Time: 20'
Belarus
Direcor: Victor Asliuk
Cinematography: Anatol Kazazajew
Editing: Victor Asliuk
Production: U³adzimir Zametalin
Year: 2008
Director Victor Asliuk finds a metaphor for the dying Belarusian countryside in rural doctor's daily toil. The doctor daily visits all his regular patients on his bicycle. For most of them, it is the only thing that breaks the monotony of their lonely days. The camera slowly documents the gradually emptying homes, kilims on the walls and huge tiled furnaces. This warm film subtly presents a world passing into yesteryear - the world of the patients and a doctor who continues ply the potholed provincial roads come rain or shine.
Screenings
2009-12-12 (Saturday), 16:00
Kino Lab.
Centrum Sztuki Wspó³czesnej
Zamek Ujazdowski
ul. Jazdów 2
Q & A with the film director after the screening
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