COOL (News from Belarus)

  • Crime
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Documentary
  • Animation
6/8/2023
131

Storyline

In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.

Directors:
Ari Gold
Radu Jude
Pierre Léon
Viktor Lebedev
Antos Sivyh
Ihar Chyshchenia
Tamara Granatkina
Christopher Small
Nikita Lavretski
Vladislav Novozhilov
Aglaya Yunova
Andrey Kashpersky
Timur Nedved
Pavel Nedzvedz
Masha Herz
Osman Nabiev
Yulya Astrovskaya
Michelle G. Stratton
Victoria Zenchuk
Waja Shchipko

      Cast

      • Slava Abelyan
        Vasily Petrovich (segment "Ostap")
      • Andrey Apanovich
        Ganesha (segment "Depression?")
      • Yulya Astrovskaya
        Self (segment "A Blissful House on the Water")
      • Timur Batdalov
        Ostap (segment "Ostap")
      • Ilja Bozhko
        Man (segment "Sugar")
      • Brian Bell
        Hank (segment "I love me")
      • Ihar Chyshchenia
        Self (segment "25% of Minsk Residents Have Depression")
      • Cristopher W. Croton
        Saroka (segment "Story 26")
      • Anna Den
        Teenager (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")
      • Andrey Freyman
        Black Policeman (segment "Man Began to Pleasure Self")
      • Ari Gold
        Shlomo (segment "I Love Me")
      • Daniela Hanusova
        Self (segment "Pohlednice")
      • Radu Jude
        Self (segment "A Belarusian Stork")
      • Lika Kareva
        Woman (segment "Ostap")
      • Andrey Kashpersky
        Man (segment "Sugar")
      • Kinostranets
        Policeman #2 (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")
      ionicons-v5-f