COOL (News from Belarus)

  • Crime
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Documentary
  • Animation
6/8/2023
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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
Pierre Léon
Viktor Lebedev
Ihar Chyshchenia
Osman Nabiev
Victoria Zenchuk
Radu Jude
Antos Sivyh
Aglaya Yunova
Michelle G. Stratton
Nikita Lavretski
Yulya Astrovskaya
Andrey Kashpersky
Waja Shchipko
Christopher Small
Tamara Granatkina
Timur Nedved
Pavel Nedzvedz
Vladislav Novozhilov
Masha Herz

      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")
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