Belsat TV movie ‘Amerikanka. All Included’ among winners at Szczecin European Film Festival

‘Amerikanka. All Included’, a movie directed by Viktar Korzun, has been awarded the prize of the mayor of Szczecin for the best film at Szczecin European Film Festival-2015.

The jury awarded the film that tells a story of the human strive for freedom ‘in a delicate but ironic way’.

The movie was also showed at Filmes Sobre Arte festival in Lisbon.

The jury awarded the film that tells a story of the human strive for freedom ‘in a delicate but ironic way’.

The movie was also showed at Filmes Sobre Arte festival in Lisbon.

The film features journalist and writer Aliaksandr Fiaduta’s being in the internal prison of the Belarusian KGB, the so-called Amerikanka. After the 2010 presidential elections the author spent 110 days there and described his prison experience in a book. The filmmakers aimed at showing the rigors of being in custody by means of literature and changed the genre of drama to that of ironic comedy. As a result, a state juggernaut turns into a caricature of itself.

Belsat TV films are to be shown at other festivals in November:

Euroshorts (23 – 29.11, Gdańsk, Poland): Where You Belong, director Andrey Kutsila.

MFFD OFF CINEMA (18 – 22.11 Poznań, Poland): Guests; Where You Belong, director Andrey Kutsila.

Nurt (24 – 27.11 Kielce, Poland): Volunteers, director Antos Tsyalezhnikau.

Media festiwal ‘Człowiek w zagrożeniu’(Person in Danger) (25 – 28.11, Łodż, Poland): Amerikanka. All included, director Viktar Korzun; Volunteers, director Antos Tsyalezhnikau.