MOTHERLAND

By Alexander MIHALKOVICH, Hanna BADZIAKA

LIGHTDOX - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2023

In 2020, Belarus’s military practice of violent bullying, torture, and murder of conscripts as a means of control becomes a flash point for a growingly dissatisfied populace.

Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2023
DOX:AWARD Competition Winner
FIFDH Geneva 2023
One World Prague 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SWEDEN, UKRAINE, NORWAY
    • Languages
    • BELARUSSIAN, RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 92 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alexander MIHALKOVICH, Hanna BADZIAKA
    • Producer(s)
    • Mario ADAMSON (SISYFOS FILM PRODUCTION), Ashley J. SMITH (SISYFOS FILM PRODUCTION), Anita NORFOLK (Folk Film), Alexander MIHALKOVICH (Voka Films)
    • Synopsis
    • As young Nikita apprehensively enters his military conscription, and Svetlana travels the country looking for justice for her dead son, activists rage in the street against state-led violence rooted in dedovshchina, the cruel abuse that turns boys into soldiers and is the very mechanism of fear and violence Belarus uses to control its populace.