The European Film Market (EFM) has provided a virtual platform for the recently launched, Vilnius-based Belarussian Filmmakers Network (BFN) to showcase their work and raise awareness about the situation of independent Belarussian filmmakers who are either forced to live in exile or are facing persecution and repression at home.
The market premieres of Vladimir Kozlov’s coming of age tale Summer of 89, Maxim Shved’s documentary The Route Recalculated, and three animation shorts by Nata Korneyeva (Shirey Mara), Yuri Semashko (When I Was General) and Ivan Gopienko (Kingdom Of Stars), are being screened on the BFN’s virtual stand.
In addition, the directors of these films and colleagues in BFN such as documentary filmmaker Aliaksei Paluyan (Courage) and producers Leonid Kalitenya and Andrei Lipau will be able to participate in the EFM’s digital programme thanks to the market’s cooperation with the Goethe Institute on its (Online) Market Badge Inclusion Initiative.
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