The movie “When the flowers are not silent” produced by Belsat has won another award. The jury of the 19th Neisse Film Festival named Andrei Kutsila’s work as the best documentary.
The jury consisting of the Czech producer Hana Blaha Šilarová, the German theater director Daniel Kötter and the Polish documentary filmmaker Piotr Stasik, recognized the production of Belsat as the most interesting presentation of this year’s edition of the festival:
It is a movie that manages to find a fitting cinematic form despite its political relevance and importance. It is a movie in which the great political narrative of the revolutionary struggle against oppression and authoritarianism is played out in individual, private, everyday situations. It is a movie that demonstrates a subtle understanding not only of women’s perspectives, but also a sense of timing for the moment as it narrates the political dimensions of everyday life through the eyes of women. This movie knows how to give a meaning beyond the historical moment through careful staging intervention into the harsh reality. It knows it not out of political opportunism, but out of the conviction that, especially in these times, political and artistic cinema urgently need each other.
Andrei Kutsila‘s movie is devoted to the dramatic everyday life of Belarusians after the social protests brutally suppressed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka and caused by his rigging of the presidential election in 2020. Earlier, the work of Kutsila received an award at the 37th Warsaw International Film Festival and an honorable mention at Artdocfest in Riga.
The Neisse Film Festival is an annual review of Polish, Czech and German feature movies, documentaries and short movies. During the event, there are also presented current and historical movie productions from other countries in the region.
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