Country: Poland
Year: 2024
Duration: 81'
Bielorussia, 2020. Dopo le elezioni truccate da Lukashenko, si susseguono grandi manifestazioni di protesta. La giornalista anti-regime Lena trasmette in diretta la brutale repressione di una manifestazione pacifica e viene rintracciata da un drone della polizia. Nonostante ciò, continua la trasmissione e viene arrestata. Il marito di Lena, Ilya, si prepara a un’evacuazione d’emergenza all’estero, ma il regime non ha intenzione di lasciarla andare. Tratto da una storia vera.
Biography
film director
Mara Tamkovich
is a Polish-Belarusian director and scriptwriter. She studied journalism at Warsaw University, film directing at Warsaw Film School and at Wajda School. For nearly ten years she worked as a journalist for independent Belarusian TV and Radio broadcasting from abroad to deliver uncensored information to Belarusians. As a filmmaker, she focuses on socially relevant topics, deeply connected to reality. Her short films were shown and awarded at numerous festivals in Poland and abroad. Under the Grey Sky is her debut feature. She is a member of Polish Filmmakers Association and Belarusian Independent Film Academy.
FILMOGRAFIA
Równanie (cm, 2015), Córka (Daughter, cm, 2018), Na zywo (cm, 2022), Pod szarym niebem (Under the Grey Sky, 2024).
Declaration
film director
“Under the Grey Sky is an attempt to reflect on the way the protest of 2020 in Belarus has shifted the paradigm from authoritarian stagnation to full on terror and to look into ways to survive it. We had this amazing, uplifting rise of determination and fearlessness, an empowering moment of true belief that change in Belarus is possible; the moment some say the Belarusian nation was actually born.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Mara Tamkovich. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Krzysztof Trela. EDITING: Katarzyna Leśniak. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Katarzyna Pawelec. COSTUME DESIGN: Anna Pietrzak. SOUND: Joanna Napieralska. CAST: Aliaksandra Vaitsekhovich, Valentin Novopolskij, Palina Chabatarova. PRODUCTION: Katarzyna Ocioszyńska for Media Corporation.
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