The Right To Death

Director: Katsiaryna Sevastyanava Year: 2009

The story of Belarusian animal rights advocates who fight against abusing and tormenting stray animals. The documentary film shows courage and determination of these activists as well as bestiality and cruelty exhibited by those who abuse the strays.

In Belarus stray cat and dogs are beaten up to death with stones, metal sticks – often with the consent of the police and in the presence of children. Murdured strays in the eyes of those who witness their death become a waste, something that needs to be got rid of…

Directed by Katsiaryna Sevastyanava, Belarus, 2009