No. 22 (2026): Belarusian Cinema and the Protests of 2020: Cinema in Exile

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Edited by Volha Isakava and Sasha Razor

Cover: Still from Mara (dir. Sasha Kulak, 2022). Click to enlarge.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17892/app.2026.00022

Published: 08-07-2026

Introductory Essay

Belarusian Cinema after 2020 Editorial Introduction

Sasha Razor, Volha Isakava
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Interviews: Belarusian Cinema

Red Heather That Grew From Concrete An Interview with the Co-Founders of the Belarusian Film Critics’ Award Red Heather

Volha Isakava, Sasha Razor
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Through the Prism of Politics A Conversation with Volia Chajkouskaya on Belarusian Cinema in Exile

Sasha Razor
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Making Films Without a Country Vladimir Kozlov on the Microbudget Cinema Incubator

Sasha Razor
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Seemingly at Home, Seemingly Not: A Conversation with Aliaksei Paluyan on Documentary, Fiction, and the Belarusian Story

Sasha Razor
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Eyes Wide Open A Conversation with Andrei Kutsila on Documentary Cinema and Exile

Sasha Razor, Volha Isakava
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Essays: Belarusian Cinema

Shelf Films as a New Phenomenon in Belarusian Culture Artist’s reflections through the cases of “Kupala” and “Liberté”

Andrei Kureichyk
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A Belarusian Film Criticism of the 2020s Between (Self-)Censorship and Sincerity

Taras Tarnalitsky
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Two Essays from the Belarusian Cultural Catastrophe

Max Zhbankou ; Volha Isakava, Sasha Razor
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Film Reviews: Belarusian Cinema

“Belarus: Recalculating Route” (2020) by Maksim Shved

Katya Lopatko
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“Courage” (2021) by Aliaksei Paluyan Belarusians Take the Stage

Oliver Okun
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“When Flowers Are Not Silent” (2021) by Andrei Kutsila

Sasha Razor
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“Mara” (2022) by Sasha Kulak

Rita Safariants
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“Motherland” (2023) by Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka

Jakob Wunderwald
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“Kupala” (2020) by Vladimir Yankovskiy

David Kurkovskiy
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“A Kid’s Flick” (2021) by Nikita Lavretski A Realist Fantasy and the First Feature Film About the Belarusian Protests

Anonymous
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“Processes” (2023) by Andrei Kashperski and Mikhail Zui Belarusian Black Mirror

Volha Valoshkina
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“Under the Grey Sky” (2024) by Mara Tamkovich

I. Kh.
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Articles

The Muse as Producer Lilia Brik and Soviet-Jewish Documentary Filmmaking in the 1920s

Maria Garth
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Reviews

Mapping War, Memory, and Mediation The Ukraine New Cinema Symposium at Yale (March 27–29, 2026)

Yuliya Ladygina
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EastUnBloc Exhibition, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin

Adrienn Kacsor
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Gulnara Abikeyeva: Kazakhskaia novaia volna Almaty: Tselinny Centre of Contemporary Culture, 2021, ISBN 978–601–06–7425–7, 400 pp.

Nikolai Domashev
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