Films on Belarusian people’s genocide to be presented at CIS Film Days in St. Petersburg
15:48, 22 August
Russia’s St. Petersburg is hosting the CIS Film Days as part of the 6th International Lendoc Film Festival. The event, which will run until 24 August, is organized by Roskino with the support of Russia’s Culture Ministry and the Lendoc film studio, BelTA learned from Roskino.
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The programme for the CIS Film Days features a large selection of films from Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. These include feature and documentary works, auteur and genre cinema, historical and contemporary dramas.
Belarusian cinema will be represented by a documentary dilogy about the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War created by director Aleksandr Anisimov in 2025: “Burned Villages” and “Death Camps”. The programme also includes Yuri Timofeev’s film “The Trust That Didn’t Bust”, which explores the origins and development of Belarusian cinema.
