COOL (News from Belarus) 2023

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.

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The cast

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Slava Abelyan Vasily Petrovich (segment "Ostap")

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Andrey Apanovich Ganesha (segment "Depression?")

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Yulya Astrovskaya Self (segment "A Blissful House on the Water")

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Timur Batdalov Ostap (segment "Ostap")

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Ilja Bozhko Man (segment "Sugar")

Brian Bell Hank (segment "I love me")

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Ihar Chyshchenia Self (segment "25% of Minsk Residents Have Depression")

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Cristopher W. Croton Saroka (segment "Story 26")

Anna Den Teenager (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")

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Andrey Freyman Black Policeman (segment "Man Began to Pleasure Self")

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Ari Gold Shlomo (segment "I Love Me")

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Daniela Hanusova Self (segment "Pohlednice")

Radu Jude Self (segment "A Belarusian Stork")

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Lika Kareva Woman (segment "Ostap")

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