UK Premiere of documentary Kalinovski Square

18.03.2008 - 20.03.2008

Tuesday, 18 March 21.00, Clapham Picture House, 76 Venn Street, London SW4 0AT
Thursday, 20 March 18.30, ICA

Human Rights Watch

2008 International Film Festival

Kalinovski Square (UK premiere)

Yury Khashchavatski - Estonia - 2007 - 73m - video - doc In Russian and Belarusian with English subtitles From Belarus's most celebrated film director, Yury Khashchavatski (An Ordinary President), comes Kalinovski Square, a film that ramps up the volume of his longstanding and personally dangerous film confrontation with 'Europe's last dictator', Belarusian President Lukashenko.

Employing his trademark wit and black humour, Khashchavatski fashions a razor-sharp critique of the 2006 rigged elections, Lukashenko's surreal propaganda machine, as well as astonishing scenes of the pro-democracy rallies and protests in Kalinovski Square that were literally swept away by army and police forces. What emerges is an astonishing piece of work that expertly presents the reality in Belarus today, while poignantly expressing the strong will for democracy and freedom that is growing in the country.

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