The "Eurasia.DOC" CIS documentary film festival programme kicks off in Minsk
15:20, 1 October
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The 10th "Eurasia.DOC" CIS documentary film festival is being held from 28 September to 2 October 2026 in Smolensk and Minsk. The programme opened in Smolensk on 28 September and in Minsk today, 1 October. Details of the event were presented at a press conference at the National Press Centre, a Soyuz.by correspondent reports.
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"The tenth anniversary festival has got off to a successful start in Smolensk. I would like to emphasise that there is an additional symbolism this year in that Smolensk is the youth capital of the Russian Federation, while the city of Minsk is the youth capital of the Republic of Belarus," said Andrey Krivosheyev, Executive Director of the "Eurasia.DOC" festival and Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Union of Journalists.
Valery Shekhovtsov, Director of the International "Eurasia.DOC" CIS documentary film festival, in turn noted the wide geography of the festival's participants. "The festival brings together people from a great variety of countries besides Russia and Belarus. There are our friends from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. This year a representative of Moldova came and also made it onto the festival's shortlist, into the final. There are also our colleagues from China. For the second time, a film from Iran is taking part in the short programme," the speaker stressed.
So screenings of the festival's participating works began in Minsk today at the Pobeda Cinema and the House of Moscow. Audiences will see documentary films from Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, as well as short film programmes. At 6:00 pm, a meeting is planned at the House of Moscow with jury member, festival expert, writer and political scientist Vladimir Sergiyenko.
The main day of the festival is 2 October. At 10:00 am, a round table titled "The Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. The Genocide of the Soviet People" will begin at the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. It will be followed by a screening of Ivan Lyulyukov's film "Dulag 142 – Death Camp".
From 2:00 to 5:00 pm, a research and educational conference titled "The Genocide of the Soviet People during the Great Patriotic War" will be held at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Screenings at the Pobeda Cinema start at 11:00 am. Audiences will see films by competitors from Belarus, Russia, Iran and Moldova. At 12:00 pm, a programme of short films by Russian directors will be shown at the House of Moscow.
From 2:00 to 4:00 pm, the youth competition "Eurasia.DOC: 4 Minutes" will be held at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.
The festival will close with a ceremony at the Belarus Cinema at 7:00 pm, where the winning film will be announced to the audience.
